Cover Letter/Supplemental Report from Lucent Technologies

0203-EX-RR-1999 Post Grant Documents

Diversified Communication Engineering, Inc.

2002-12-02ELS_59166

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                                                        October 22, 1999




              Dear Colleague:

                      We are pleased to enclose a copy of Lucent Technologies‘ Report "On Northpoint
              Field Trial in Washington DC." This report is a supplement to our full Experimental
              Progress Report provided to you last week.

                     As further detailed in the enclosed report Lucent focused on Bit Error Rate
              Testing for certain worst case sites. After this examination, Lucent concluded that "It is
              our opinion that for this level of interference the impact on DBS is negligible in all
              weather conditions."

                      We believe that Lucent‘s report in addition to our own Experimental Report and
              other submissions in the record form a compelling case for Northpoint technology.

                    We hope you will review this material and feel free to ask us any questions you
              may have about the enclosures or the Northpoint system

                                                            Sincerely yours,


                                                             uin
                                                            Sophia Collier
                                                            President

              Enclosure


                   Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs
              Advance Technology Center of Excellence
 Wireless and Multimedia System Development Group, Arlington VA




                                                          Lucent Technologies
                                                                     Bell Labs Innovations




            On Northpoint Field Trial in Washington DC
                         Sept — Oct 1999
                                       Habib Riazi
                             Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs

 Abstract:

 Northpoint is proposing to provide terrestrial digital multichannel TV and
 wideband forward link Internet services using the 12.2—12.7 GHz spectrum that is
 currently used by Satellite Direct Broadcasting Services (DBS). Northpoint
 transmission is based on a patented approach similar to Space Division Multiplex
 (SDM) using directional antennas. There has been an interest on part of FCC as
 well as, DBS providers, Northpoint, and Lucent Technologies Bell Labs to get a
 precise understanding of the potential interference to DBS customers located at
 relatively close ranges to the Northpoint transmitter. During the months of August
 and September, Northpoint conducted a series:— of field tests in Washington DC
 area that provided useful data for this study. In this memorandum, we have
 provided some insight into the representative real world effects on the operation
 of the DBS customers at close ranges‘ including one at 0.17 Km from Northpoint
 transmitter. This analysis shows that for the site located at 0.17 Km from
 Northpoint Transmitter, measured degradation of received Eb/No for a DBS
. Ie~siver is less than 0.23 dB with 95% confidence. Further, this reduction
 curresponds to a C/I of 24 dB under the test conditions. For general applicability,
 these figures can be scaled to other link conditions in conjunction with the DBS
 link budget anu —interpreted with respect to the link availability in terms of
 percentage of time and places. It is our opinion that for this level of interference
 the impact on the DBS services is negligible in all weather conditions.




 ‘ Due to the signal attenuation, the interference at locations beyond a few miles is not a concern.


                   Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs
              Advance Technology Center of Excellence
  Wireless and Multimedia System Development Group, Arlington VA

 Background:

 To satisfy Federal Communications Commission‘s requirements, Northpoint
 services must coexist, on a non—interference basis, with the satellite direct
 broadcast services (DBS) that are licensed to operate in the same band as the
 primary users ‘. It is our understanding that Northpoint seeks to satisfy this
 requirement     based     on    a   patented     approach     using    cell—based       terrestrial
 transmitters with directional transmit antennas facing southward. With this
 arrangement, Northpoint wavefront nominally impinges on the rear of the DBS
 subscribers‘ antennas. Northpoint is currently seeking amendments to the
 pertinent parts of the current Code of Federal Regulations (CFR—47) which
 governs terrestrial use, through its affiliate Broadwave USA Inc.

 During the last two years, Northpoint has sought and obtained three experimental
 licenses from the Commission to conduct limited field experiments and has filed
 supportive arguments and counter arguments for their patented approach.
 Before this experiment in Washington DC, Northpoint had completed two trials
 showing the fundamental viability of their approach in rural and urban
 environments in Texas. This experiment, which started in early August of 99, was
 conducted in Washington DC area. During this trial Northpoint conducted
 multicell transmission and demonstrated their service using Lucent Digital Video
 (LDV) equipment successfully. In addition, Northpoint gathered further evidence
 of non—interference to the DBS, here in the northeastern region of US where DBS
 elevation angles are more critical. Northpoint will separately publish a public
 progress report on this trial.

 Bell Labs Specific Involvement:

 Wireless and Multimedia System Development Group (WMSDG) in Arlington, VA
 is a group in Bell Labs Advanced Communications Technologies Center of
 Excellence centrally located in Holmdel, NJ. The group‘s collective background
 consists of complementary competencies in wireless communications system
 design, simulation, field optimization, and system implementation. Our parent
 center‘s charter is to help Lucent‘s BUs with development of new and advanced
 products of strategic importance to Lucent.

 It is our understanding that there is mutual interest on part of Northpoint and |
 Lucent Digital Video for partnering in bringing the terrestrial video service
 alternative to the consumers. LDV has therefore asked Bell Labs WMSDG to
— work with Northpoint during their field trial in Washington DC. WMSDG of Lucent

 ‘ There has been fixed microwave point—to—point services that used this band as well.
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Technologies provided the following support and recommendations during the
conduct of Washington DC field trials by Northpoint technical personnel:

e    Recommendation for experimental design of Northpoint field experiments with
     respect to transmission anomalies and interference measurements
e    Recommendation for special measurement equipment and software for
     measured parameters
e    Periodic observation of Northpoint field experiments and practices
     Recommendation for the analysis and reduction of the test data
e    Technical opinion with respect to the experimental results

This technical memorandum provides an interim observation and evaluation of
some test results collected by Northpoint in Washington area during the months
of August and September.

Objective and Extent of the Tests:

Northpoint trial objective in Washington DC experimental transmission were as
follows:

a) Further evaluation of interference effects on DBS transmission in single cell
   and multicell scenarios
b) Demonstration of their multichannel digital transmission service using Lucent
     Technologies multiplexer.

The test in category (a) examined coexistence of Northpoint Technology with
Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) systems. Where applicable, special effort was
made to locate the test sites to include transmission anomalies such as multipath
signals due to reflections from buildings or bodies of water. Northpoint also
conducted tests with multiple repeater/transmitters (multicell scenario) to
examine the effect of overlap areas.

Category (b) test was a limited service demonstration to investigate theability of
the Northpoint Technology to provide a quality multichannel video service usinc;
Lucent‘s multiplexer. Northpoint successfully demonstrated this to various
interested parties.

        Test Metric:

The metrics used for category (a) tests were both quantitative as well :s
qualitative and included the following:
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     Change of signal strength pointer® (SSP)
    Indication of increased noise in the DBS system using spectrum analyzer
    Presence of a good DBS picture using multiple DBS consumer receivers
     And link quality measure of bit error rate (BER)®

The last metric was of particular interest to Bell Lab. Elaborate work has been
done by Northpoint to model the exact C/l due to the Northpoint transmission at
various distances and its effect on performance of DBS consumer receivers. It is
 however generally impossible to realistically model signal environments with
 possible muiltipath and diffused reflections. Field measurements with realistic
scenarios provide the opportunity to include such anomalies with relative ease.
We paid special attention to the effect of Northpoint transmission in real world
scenarios on the bit error rate of the DBS system. This report concentrates on
the result of this particular test and summarizes our observation of the outcome.


 Design of Experiments:
Eb/No is a generally accepted metric for assessing the quality of a digital
communication link. This parameter is uniquely related to the transmission quality
metric (bit error rate), and the link margin and availability. Our objective was to
devise an efficient experiment to observe any changes in the mean Eb/(No+1o)*
of the DBS received signal in presence of Northpoint transmission.
Theoretical analysis and previous Northpoint tests indicates that such a change
 is in general small if any and certainly not directly measurable using spectral
power measurement. This is especially true for most practical field scenarios (i.e.
C/i~ 20 dB). Therefore deterministic judgment as to the validity of the changes in
 the measured data is hardly possible for most practical field scenarios. Our
_approach for a meaningful test was to perform paired statistical sampling of the
effects on the DBS Eb/(No+lo) with Northpoint transmitter ON and OFF. We took
six sites, mostly located within less than a mile from Northpoint transmitter. Tests
 at these sites were conducted over several days at various times of the day using
the same process each time. At each site, Eb /(No+lo) was automatically —
measured, using a laboratory grade DVB demodulator—decoder". Data was
recorded for consecutive periods of time when Northpoint transmitter was ON or

 * The Signal Strength Pointer (SSP) is an indication of DBS signal strength, it is a feature of the
 consumer DBS set top and is intended to aid the consumer in properly pointing their antenna.
 3,Indirectly assessed by monitoring received Eb/(No+1o).                   ,    _
 * Eb/(No+lo) is uniquely related to the BER using modulator—decoder performance curves.
 * variable rate demodulator model NTC /2063 manufactured by NewtecCy N. V. of Belgium,
 compliant with DVB standards (EN 300421).
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              Advance Technology Center of Excellence
  Wireless and Multimedia System Development Group, Arlington VA

 OFF. The order was either OFF/ON or ON/OFF or OFF/ON/OFF with roughly
 equal test time. Total test time for each site was nominally 45 minutes, with
 samples taken approximately every 10 seconds. The intent was to form samples
 for further analysis off line.

 Test Setup:

        Transmitter:

 The tests were performed around the Northpoint experimental transmitter® site on
 the USA Today building at 1000 Wilson Boulevard in Rosslyn, Virginia.

 Transmitter apparatus consisted of a custom horn antenna‘ fed with a QPSK
 modulated carrier from a transmitter" with Digital Video Broadcast Format
 representative of potential Northpoint transmission. Transmitter equipment was
 set up on the rooftop and connected to the horn antenna, which was hanging
 over the parapet 5 below the roof line. The connecting transmission line was a
 14‘ EW127 waveguide®. Transmit power was monitored, through a coupler using
 a HP power meter, both by an operator and automatically using VEE software.
 Automatic recording of power level was made every 3 seconds. Northpoint
 transmitter spectrum was overlapping the tested DBS transponder spectrum.
 Following table provides further details of Northpoint transmitter.

 Table 1. Northpoint Experimental Transmitter Parameters

 Parameter                        Nominal Value            Unit
 Transmit power                   12.5                     dBm
 Carrier Frequency                12.47                    GHz (DBS transpndr 18)
  Polarization                                             Horizontal
| Transmit Ant. Beamwidth         110                      horizontal
                                  17                       vertical
 Tilt                                                      None
 Boresight Azimuth                113     _                degree
 Modulation                                                QPSK                     _
 Symbol Rate                      20000050                 Symb‘/s




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                     Advance Technology Center of Excellence
 Wireless and Multimedia System Development Group, Arlington VA

        Receiver:
Receiver equipment was in a mobile test van, which was equipped with a towed
boom lift supporting several DBS receiving antennas and an AC power
generator. Receive antennas were commercial DBS offset feed parabolic 18"
dishes with integrated LNB and L—band downconverter. The van had sufficient
equipment for receiving and monitoring Direct TV and Echostar transponders as
well as Northpoint transmitter, all displayed at the same time. Besides the DBS
equipment and special receiver—decoders, the van included a spectrum analyzer,
calibration signal generator, and necessary cables and connections for
monitoring the desired signal line.
Monitoring and processing of the signals were performed on the block down
converted L—band signal from the corresponding antenna LNB. All antennas were
mechanicaliy        adjusted                           for                   best    boresight       view     of   the     corresponding
transmitter/transponder. Northpoint field personnel using in—line signal meter as
well as the DBS on screen SSP made antenna adjustments.
Following figure illustrates the typical receiver setup and calibration of received
power.

                                                    Cable Attenuation (-O.G'dB)

                                                    L—band Spilitter
                                                                                                            Ps = Pm+13.8 dB*

                                                    (—4 dB)                              Matching Pad        Spectrum
                                                                                          (—5.7 dB)         Analyzer




                           :
                                                                                                            DBS Receiver

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Antenna, LNB, feed system                                                                                   Pr®*, Eb/No, BER
(G=84.5 dBi, subject to aiming
adjustment)
                                                                             Cable Attenuation (—0.6 dB)
                                                                                                             Newtec IRD
* Pm is measured spectral density im 1 MHz. 13.8 = 10*log (24 MHz, transponder flat bandwidth approx.)
** Pr = Ps+4+5.7 = Pm + 23.5 dBm

Figure 1. Typical receiving configuration and setup calibration
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                  Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs
             Advance Technology Center of Excellence
 Wireless and Multimedia System Development Group, Arlington VA

Newtec Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) was the test instrument used for BER
tests analyzed in this report. This unit is a DVB compliant receiver—decoder
equipped with a serial port where all receiver parameters such as internal
temperature, received signal level, carrier and clock frequency offset, output
BER, Eb/(No+10), available link margin‘©, alarm and sync indication at all levels,
are available for monitor and download to a PC using a software package
provided by the manufacturer.
Receiver Site Characteristics:
Northpoint previous tests as well as comments by DirecTV indicated that
Northpoint interference level at distances beyond a few miles from the transmitter
is indeed not an issue. Therefore the sites for BER test were selected to be
mostly within a mile of the Northpoint transmitter. Furthermore, the sites provided
a mix of azimuth relation between Northpoint transmitter antenna and DBS look
angle. The criterion was to select sites that are a representative sample of the
practical scenarios with potential Northpoint interference to DBS receivers. These
test sites were a subset of all the sites that were tested by Northpoint. Following
table lists some important attributes of the sites where BER test was performed.
Table 2: Specific Attributes of the BER Test Sites

                                      Ground [Distance       [Relative    |Measured    [Relative
                                      Elev.  From            direction    |INP spectr. [azimuth
                                      AMSL   |NP Tx          to Tx brs    Idensity     DBS to NP
 Receive Site Name            Site No [|(ft) (mi)             (deg)       (dBmi/MHz)|(deg) **
  (Transmit site USA Today)

 Arlington Cemetary                  7       36       0.86         475           —107      2955
 River Place Apts.*                  1       65       0.11         76.6          —108      324.6

 Roosevelt Island                  1A        40       0.18        —87.0          —108      161.0

 Federal Construction Site       10A         30       0.26         34.2          ~108      282.2

 Kennedy Center                      3       20       0.71        —28.6          —108      219.4

 Anacostia                          19       15       4.20          1.4          —123      249.4


* Northpoint signal strength at this site is considerably above the calculated LOS which suggests
other propagation phenomenon, ** Echostar transponder at 119 W


‘° Difference between measured Eb/No and required for the device.
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                      Advance Technology Center of Excellence
          Wireless and Multimedia System Development Group, Arlington VA

         Referring to Table 2, we believe these sites represent a good mixture of real
         world scenarios because:
         1. Five of the six sites (7, 1, 1A, 10A¥, and 3) are within 1 mile of the Northpoint
            transmitter. Three are within quarter of a mile ( 1, 1¥A, 10A)
            Five of the six sites (1, 1¥, 10A, 3, and 7) are among all the sites tested and
            exhibited highest signal strength from Northpoint transmitter.
            Two of the sites (1 and 1A¥) are among the sites that exhibited substantially
            larger received power as measured compared to the calculated LOS power ——
            suggesting presence of additional propagation phenomena.
            Four out of six sites (7, 10A, 3, and 19) are within the 3—dB beamwidth of the
            Northpoint transmitting antenna beam pattern.
            Two of the six sites (3 and 19) are located such that Northpoint transmitter
            relative azimuth is close to the highest side lobe gain of the DBS antenna ‘‘.
            Relative azimuth of 180—degree occurs when DBS antenna is pointing away
            from the Northpoint transmitter.


         Data Analysis Algorithm:
         Our first objective is to see if the gathered data presents sufficient evidence to
         indicate that the DBS mean Eb/(No+lo) is less with the Northpoint transmitter
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         turned ON. Secondly, we want to quantify this difference, if any, so that we can
         generalize the outcome to assess its impact on DBS performance and make
         comments concerning other untested scenarios.
         To accomplish these two objectives we resort to the following statistical analysis
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         procedure:
         1. We examine the distribution of gathered data for each site and each event, Tx
            OFF and Tx ON. Approximately normal distribution shape is expected for an
            experiment of this nature.
            We take two equal size array of data form each site and measured event, Tx
            OFF and Tx ON:                                                      |

                                             Y1=[y11 .« Yil
                                             Y2 = [ Y21 —«— Y2aal
            Where n>100.



         ‘! Reference DirecTV presentation of 2 March 99 filing to the FCC in the NPRM, page 10.
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3. We form an array containing the difference of each paired sample sets‘*:

                                          D = [d; ... d,]


4. We calculate the mean dmean and variance sy4* for the elements of this array.


                                         dmean = (Z di )/n

                                 sd2 = (% (d;— dmean)z),(n'1)


5. We then test the hypothesis for the expected difference being zero.
   Specifically, we are concerned with detecting whether the ON period
   Eb/(No+lo) is less than the OFF period Eb/(No+lo). At first glance it would
   seem that there is a difference between the population means, we would like
    to check this conjecture with a statistical test outlined below. The proper
    analysis of the paired data would utilize the difference array to test the:
    hypothesis that the average difference is equal to zero, a statement which is
    equivalent to:


                                            HOZ ud=0


6. We will use a paired—set statistical test and the rejection region for the test will
   be located in the upper tail of the t—distribution.
7. Referring to standard tables‘® for t—distribution, we find the critical value of t.
    We use alpha=.025‘" for given data set degree of freedom, df. Note that for
    our large data sets the degree of freedom is approximately equal to the

2 A t—test for two sets with unequal variance also yielded approximately the same results.
However, it is not peculiar for the two—set unequal variance test to fail if a binomial paired test is
the only appropriate test.
 Table of Percentage Points of the t—Distribution, Computed by Maxine Merlngton Biometrika,
Vol 32, p300.                                                                                        —
"For a two—tailed t statistic this means that 99.5% of the time we will make the right deC|S|on
about the outcome.
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    aggregate number of data samples. Since this is larger than 100 **° for each
    of the six sites, we can use t o.025 = 1.960 as the critical value for t from the
    table.
8. We calculate the value of test statistics, t, for each site:

                                    t = dmean I(‘/ sdzln)

9. And compare calculated t with the critical value obtained above. If it does fall
    in the rejection region, i. e. greater than the critical value, we will conclude,
    with a 0.05 level of significance, that there is a reduction of mean of
    Eb/(No+lo). Otherwise we conclude the opposite if the calculated t is below
    the critical value.
10.!f the above hypothesis is rejected, then we calculate the estimate of
    difference and the 95% confidence margin.


                           E(y1i—y2i) = dmeant/—1.96V( s4*/n) _

Before proceeding with the analysis of the data, it is necessary to qualify some
assumptions inherent with this algorithm —— "Moderate" departure from normal
distribution for the test sample populations do not seriously affect the distribution
of the test statistics and the confidence coefficient for the corresponding interval.
However, it is essential to maintain a minimum variance in the measurements of
the quality characteristics of a process. Measuring instruments must provide
unbiased readings with relatively small error of measurement. Alithough bias can
be corrected‘", the precision of the instrument is usually a function of instrument
design, and can therefore not be corrected. Variance is fundamental to
procedures for making inferences about population means. As will be discussed
later, we take special precautions in our interpretation of the results so as to
prevent any error due to a suspiciously large variance.


Data Analysis Results:
Figure 2 shows distribution of data for all six sites. We observe that the
distribution for site #19 is excessively broad (Tx ON condition). We believe this


" A degree of freedom greater than 30 is considered reasonably large for statistical accuracy of
this test.                                                                        ‘
* We randomized the order in which we took the measurements (ON/OFF, OFF/ON,
OFF/ON/OFF as well as time of the measurement) for this purpose.
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anomaly is not caused by Northpoint interference, there is enough evidence to
support this conclusion:
1. This site is considerably far from the transmitter, and the Northpoint signal
    intensity is the lowest for this site among all the tested sites( —123 dBm/MHz
    as seen from Table 1).
    The received power dlfference far exceeds the compensating difference in the
    DBS antenna side—lobe gain‘‘
    There was no other report such as loss of sync or other receiver problems.
 . Double humped shape in the distribution of measured data is generally
   caused by inconsistent data due to intermittent setup.
    Most importantly, the distribution mean suggests that the mean difference is
   negative, this is not meaningful since it implies DBS reception gets better
   when Northpoint signal is ON.

We believe these reasons are sufficient to pronounce this set of data as simply
bad data and exclude it from further analysis.

Table 3: Data Analysis Summary

             Distance                                                         95%
             from TX                                                       Confidence
   Site #        Km           d (dB)          Variance s*          t      Interval (+/—)
     7          1.38         0.098558          0.003589          16.7       0.011514
     1          0.17         0.209469          0.010460          21.7       0.018858
    1A          0.29         0.177732          0.021175          17.0       0.020477
    10A         0.42         0.036099          0.015508          03.4       0.020555
     3          1.14         0.119167          0.019359           8.9       0.026241

We will now examine the result of data analysis and make the following
observations:

1. Considering our critical value for t, 1.96 for 95% confidence interval, we note
   that the case for site #10A is not very strong. Note also that the interval is
    quite wide (+/—0.020555), considering the small difference between the
    sample means (0.036099). This simply indicates that the estimate for this
    particular set of data is not accurate enough.


‘‘ +6 dB side lobe difference vs —15 dB power difference, compared to the closest site at the River
Place.
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2. A second glance at the mean difference for site 10A reveals a marked
    inconsistency with the general and expected trend of results for increasing
    distance (see the order 1>1A¥ >10A >3 >7).

3. Due to the above uncertainties, it is reasonable to discard the result for 10A. if
    we do so, then there is a logical correspondence between the distance from
    Northpoint transmitter and the mean difference.

4. The above finding is quite interesting since it suggests that there is little
   evidence to indicate that other propagation phenomena such as diffused and
   multipath reflections will have an important effect on Northpoint interference
   to DBS. We make this conclusion because the sites under consideration had
   profoundly different characteristics with respect to their immediate
   surroundings.

5. Our statistical calculation suggests that the interference from Northpoint test
   transmitter to the DBS consumer located at the site #1, which was only 0.17
   Km away from NP experimental transmitter, will not exceed 0.23 dB on
    average with 95% confidence‘®.
6. The above level of interference is insignificant considering the DBS clear air
   margin of 6 to 7 dB‘° with nominal received Eb/No of 11.6 dB, the equivalent
    Eb/lo would be 24 dB*°.
Conclusion:

We have provided a straightforward methodology and procedure for precise
characterization of Northpoint small interference to DBS services. This technique
was used to analyze six cases of field measurements in Washington DC with
various    distances,    all   less than     one     Km,   from    Northpoint experimental
transmitter. Our analysis shows that for test receiver at a distance of 0.17 Km
from Northpoint experimental transmitter, measured degradation of received
Eb/No is less than 0.23 dB with 95% confidence. Further, This reduction
corresponds to a C/l of 24 dB under the test conditions. For general applicability,
these figures can be scaled to other link conditions in conjunction with the DBS
link budget and interpreted with respect to the link availability in terms of


‘° Reference Table 3, (0.209469+0.018858).
* Link margin reported by the test receiver was nominally 6.8 dB. Eb/No for QPSK modulation
with % inner code concatenated with Reed—Solomon RS(294, 188, 8) is about 5.5 dB for Quasi
Error Free (QEF) operation.
"° OQutput error measurement data indicated virtually no error (default value of 10~—25).
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percentage of time and places. It is our opinion that for this level of interference
the impact on the DBS services is negligible in all weather conditions. It should
also be noted that there is no evidence in the analysis results to indicate that
other propagation phenomena such as diffused and multipath reflections will
have an important effect on Northpoint interference to DBS. We make this
conclusion because the sites under consideration had profoundly different
characteristics with respect to their immediate surroundings yet the analysns
result did not indicate this to be a difference.

Acknowledgment:

This project provided an opportunity to work with Northpoint technical staff and
Broadwave USA management during their tests which were performed in the
months of August and September of 1999 in Washington DC. We observed
desire to use due diligence in safeguarding the DBS customers. At the same
time, we found them to have incomparable passion for bringing innovative
alternatives to the consumer.

Finally, we would like to thank Northpoint, D.C. Engineering staff and Dr. Darrell
Word for their support in providing background information and performing field
measurements to provide data for this analysis.




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