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Wireless Applications, Corp.

The best approach for Telecom

From early

WAC 1999

To WAC 2010

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Highlighted Accomplishments Many major and minor companies through the years.


o ACS Wirelesso Bechtel Corporationo Smartcommo InfraNexto US Cellularo Monet Mobile Networks (Burst Wireless)o Minnesota Towerso Trilogy Partnerso Monosite, Inc o Northwest Towero GCIo Spire Communications (bankrupt)o Worldcomsiteo Verizono FiberTowero Clearwireo Alaska Digitelo American Messagingo ATS Communicationso Edge Wirelesso T-Mobileo SiteMastero Cityswitcho InSite Wireless

o LCC Corpo AAT Communicationso Titan Towerso C2C Fiber Networkso Radiano Sprint & Sprint Siteso Mountain Union Telecomo Scanao Inland Cellularo Lattice Towerso GlobalTowers, Inc (bankrupto BelAir Interneto Bend Broadbando TTMo Cantor Fitzgeraldo Diamond Communicationso Ericssono Idaho Towerso KGI Wirelesso LyleCoo Mobilitieo Immobilio Morrison Hershfield

Partial Client List

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About Wireless Applications, Corp.:

Customized Web Software GIS consulting services

FAA / FCC filing services High-level RF engineering

Focus on the Broadband Wireless Wireless Industries.

o A specialized and experienced team of wireless telecommunications engineers, software developers, and GIS mapping experts.

o Wireless Applications, Corp., leaders of web based software to expedite telecom results at light speed.


You may have seen us in the background or even used our data at some point.

T-Mobile, AMS, US Cellular, TowerCo, SBA, MUT, ComsitesWest, Tmobile, Sprint, Cantor, Clearwire, ATS, Diamond, Ericsson, AAT, LFC, SDS, Titan, Immobili, Inland, InSite, KGI, Mobilitie, Monosite, Trilogy, Edge, GCI, ACS and many others.

Wireless Applications Corp. - 12 years of growing software and relationships…


History and Value Proposition

o Roots go back into the early days of McCaw, Western Wireless and VoiceStream with other support and vendor companies.

o Common theme in early days that continues to drive our vision today:

• Build it faster. • Get more Spectrum.• More sites.• Update to latest technology…


o Dedicated to reduce redundancy and automate repeatable processes with software

development.

o Company offerings - three solutionso Licensed online software applications o Provide Telecom Eng Serviceso Blend the two. Offer our completed output

through our tools, or let the clients run their own and we file what they produce.

WAC 3D Calendar 2010 Poster Sending out 1000+ a year !


Highlighted Accomplishments

o The SiteSync Platform , Licensed On-Line Softwareo Tower Searching and Investment Analysiso Spectrum Ownership Analysiso On-Line RF Propagation – Coverage Analysis (in seconds!)o Microwave Backhaul Analysis and Design Tools

o Website Integration Experienceo Cantor Spectrum Exchange Application and Mapping Engineo Tower Searching and Mapping for various Tower Companieso RF Propagation design for Cellular, PCS, Paging, AWSo XWAC Trouble Ticketing for Verizon, American Messaging

o FCC / FAA Regulatory Analysis – 1000s/year - Large National Carrierso Nearly 100% Automation and Full Virtual Vault for Customerso Experienced Telecom Analysis for Hearings, best tower, location.o One simple price for MW Coordination or FAA / FCC Filings

oInvestment Analysis - Multiple Telecom Investor Groups o Spectrum Analysis and Mappingo Geographic Analysis and Mapping and Coverage Plotso SSIR Location based WAC Rating reports


SiteSync - eCoverage


Capabilities

Coupling our years of wireless experience with our GIS knowledge and expansive data warehousing, WAC has developed portfolio analysis services that are unmatched in our industry.

o Analysiso Using a variety of different mapping solutions from simple low-resolution coverage maps to high-end analysis with poster size output


o Data and GIS presentationo Using technology and experience of importing, exporting, analyzing and mapping a multitude of data: locations, RF coverage, frequency ownership, demographic/census, FCC auction results, performance results, drive test data

o RF Coverage in secondso Full RF propagation (eCoverage) model built into our web-based product

o Microwave Backhaulo Detailed path analysiso Networkso Design Automation (TNT2.0)

SiteSync – Microwave Research


Spectrum - How is it used?

The FCC has a huge challenge as the complexity of the Nation’s so many technology dreams, ended up with many areas of inefficiencies.

How big is this whole PCS cell phone thing?

There are approximately 152 different Radio Service Types in today’s Spectrum


Spectrum – BRS, What can happen?

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700 Mhz; Auction it, Re-Auction, Re-band and Relocate.

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Hugely complicated, the TV White Space play involves massive calculations for the existing FCC rules. WAC has created a fully functional interface with the complete Longely-Rice, FCC mandated Propagation Curves. This involved a lengthy 1970’s Fortran code conversion.Finding a true area for transmitting is tougher then the FCC wants you to believe.

White Space – TV empty areas, or are they?


Sites – Structure TypesFor deployment of the wireless world requires infrastructure. Structures which can be nearly anything from towers, buildings, bridges, utility towers, water tanks to stealth installs of trees or even a cactus. These are needed for attaching the equipment and generating coverage.

There are approximately 340,000 individual structures in the USA

Types


DemographicsKnow your target audience.

- Does your system cover the potential population you are trying to obtain as subscribers?

- Does it cover businesses?

- How many cars drive by?

Population and Density

Average Annual Daily Traffic counts

Business Density


Microwave and NetworksTo make the systems route the subscriber data, all the transmitting locations must be connected back to a switch or central hub. Routing these points together is traditionally done via landline and Microwave (through the air connections) and Satellite. In today’s market the connectivity has grown to a number of providers including Fiber and Cable supplying the much needed higher data rates.

Fastest deployment is microwave


RF Coverage - PropagationWith any system there is always the question of that technology’s reach. RF or Radio Frequency also known as Propagation, is generated and displayed using signal strength. As discussed with the Spectrum frequencies section, the lower frequencies penetrate materials and the higher ones reflect.Running propagation models allows engineers to view and tweak their systems both before and after their designs.There are numerous calculation models, engineering methods and many ways to perfect the designs. In the end, real life deployment and the time of year in reference to foliage growth morph your best efforts.

Typical propagation outputs

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Anita – Who is she?Created from scratch internal at WAC, Anita Phreq is our Spokesperson.

Over 900,000 polygons

Layered with 4000 dpi scan of real skin !

Full bone / muscle movement

Countless hours, but she is worth it !

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Colowars – The Game

Colocation has been in the telecom industry for years, yet so many locations are not only incorrect, they may not even be known. Colowars brings a game-like experience to a virtual onsite inspection of more than 300,000 sites in the USA. Check information about wireless tower sites in your area, upload GPS pictures, learn and work with real information all at the same time! Achieve credits and experience as you go, gaining your leader board titles and earning you telecom minigames, tools and even t-shirts.

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Promotion for the free access product extended from RCR ads, to the web, to the CTIA and postcard mail-outs.

CTIA meets the Anita Phreq…twins.

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Stats and Ranking Badge levels

View all your sites you corrected or different users. All through our Heat Map !

Ranking strategy !

Full Training Videos !

Chat with others !

Easy signup, easy learning, training and built-in communications and even stats of other players. All in the name of correcting site data.

Full Market Place to buy items with your credits !

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Games as incentives

Some are zero risk, others cost credits yet can give out credits if the user wins or beats time limits. Majority of the games are designed around Telecom, so they are actually ‘training’ the person versus just wasting time !

Tower Memory Slider Puzzle of real pics

Hang TowerTower Trouble, (animation)

Flood it

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Built on the concept of our Pause-n-Fix regulatory tool, Colowars includes all referenced records for each location for group assignment, a proximity tower radar, address and reverse geocoding, height estimator and the ability to add map defined shelters or built in drag and drops. Even add baskets, dishes and other antennas to the structure at the heights per reg, or place them per the Tower’s shadow !

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Tower Caching – The Crowd Source Game

We tied the databases directly into the user’s Colowars! account AND to SSPro

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Portfolio Sync from SiteSync Pro

Ranking, pictures, status Sync’d to Colowars

Only Pause-n-Fix your sites!

Stay in the game !

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Written from the ground up, we wanted to integrate the field activity into our SSPro and Colowars crowd sourcing of Structure corrections. Allows users to fix their towers from their company or ones they have touched for Site Acq work.

Locates you, show towers Pick one,

question details Route it, or pick routes

Check type, location, heights….

Load pictures OR review others

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Integrated exclusive Height Estimator !

Users can take real time pictures and use them towards Structure Height Verification. Simple, yet very powerful. All pictures are GEO-Coded and shown in Colowars the exact positions and attached to that Site ID.


The SiteSync Platform. Easiest to describe as a table setting.There are individual dishes, storage items in the middle for all, a doggy bag and the kiddy table. As for our services, there is Anita.

Layers

SiteSync Classic – Web Based Suite of Tools


SiteSync – Sites, Coverage, Research, Control

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Take pieces of our SiteSync and use it to power your Company X for your own public web interface.

SiteSync – Platform Integration

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XWAC – Trouble Ticketing

From 1999, WAC has invested into Trouble Ticket Tracking for large and small companies.

Always web-based, always including RF Propagation.

- Outage prediction areas

- Site maintenance timing

- History and more.


SiteSync – Structure Search

Basic to complex searches

Clean results, summaries, exports

SSIR Portfolio Location Analysis

2D or 3D tower exports

We pride ourselves in having complete and frequently updated databases containing over a million records of structures throughout the USA.


SiteSync – eCoverage- Full RF propagation through the web, fast and very user friendly.

- We don’t expect everyone to be a engineer, but if you are, you know how hard this was.

- One simple entry area, we do the complex calculations and deliver RF at high res in a simple output.

- Play with it, change it, export it, or produce the PDF.

Simple entry

Wow output(s)


SiteSync – Microwave Paths, eMwave- Search existing licensed microwave

- Check their filed data for line-of-sight profiles

- Design your own, from basic commands or out to our advanced MW manager.

- Find networks, capacity by bands.

- Export for full 3D views, not just a line.

30 meter, SRTM and 10 meter coming

Search entities or areas and or bands

See the details


SiteSync – Demographics

SSIR Location Analysis

RF contour or threshold pop coverage calculations

WAC has worked hard to automate the process the Telecom industry needs for day to dayportfolio analysis and for requirements for investors, FCC and others.

Whether it be our location analysis reports for 10 or 1000 sites, or if the user wants to generate the research on their own, we sincerely hope….we have it covered.


SiteSync Pro – Launched 1st qtr 2010

Our latest Platform release is a completely new design from the ground up to delivery more power to the user with a larger flexibility of imports, research and automation.

- Batch Search rings for towers

- Batch Filing requests

- Batch RF coverage

- Batch Microwave LOS analysis

- Batch SSIR location analysis

- Batch MW network design

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For normal system buildouts, a Excel spreadsheet can be uploaded with the site locations and run through our exclusive VERIFY / PAUSE-N-FIX area.

Upload detects fields from spreadsheet.

Simple Location Checks

Regulatory Checks

Pause-N-Fix allows multiple mapping, height measurements, regulatory and history of locations.

SiteSync Pro

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SiteSync Pro

Rewritten from the ground up, SSPro is incredibly fast. This search of all of Clearwire MW for frequencies of 5Ghz to 25Ghz returned 472 records, a map and the data back to the user in approx 4 seconds !

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SiteSync Pro

Bringing all of our applications and software tools together into one for our clients, SiteSync Pro gives users all the power!

Excel or CSV uploads, tons of Exports

Full RF Coverage WORLDWIDE !

Prospectus Report of location

Complete Microwave Design WORLDWIDE !

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- What if hundreds of potential line-of-site profiles could be fully calculated with one command?

- What if a tool looked at all the existing paths and figured out which configuration built in the greatest

future resiliency ?

- What if this same tool generated networks, optimizing based on a menu of your parameters

and could even provide Interference checks?

SiteSync – Network Planning Automation

Take advantage of our automation for huge savings of speed to market and human error reduction.


We are excited to share with you a Wireless Applications vision to make the complex, simple.

Microwave.

You have this. Everybody else has this.

SiteSync – Network Planning Automation

How do you compete, design?

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o As we can imagine, existing networks are designed extremely fast using traditional labor intensive processes of microwave design, path by path. With this process it is only human nature to look for the easiest solutions due to the pressures.

o WAC has created something game changing, the ability to see the entire potential of a proposed area, upfront.

o SiteSync Pro with our TNT2 enterprise microwave design package, allows single users enormous power over even the most robust teams of engineers.

Game changing microwave design.

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Running an ROI showed mind bending savings

Based on traditional methods of microwave design, the labor needed and Coordination costs, WAC was able to run models for dollars saved.

The results from normal labor for one path designs vs All Paths by TNT were giant even when our software costs pushed to 50k a month.

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SiteSync – Network Planning AutomationTNT2 (The Network Tool) Automates Microwave Backhaul

1. Analyze all the possible paths relative to terrain and design parameters

2. Optimization via complex algorithms to design a network 3. Analyze design

parameters, run multiple scenarios, or continue with interactive modifications.

Take advantage of our automation for huge savings of speed to market and human error reduction. Typical 150 site markets take 4 minutes !

(its Dirt Simple)

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- For a raw build or even a look into a old system, the initial TNT2 design starts with site dots

-Looks through user parameters of max distances, frequency, number of antenna, etc for making candidate sites and hubs.

- Run a insane amount of Line-of-Site profiles.

- For example, 200 Site dots = (200 X 199/2)=19,900. But we do BOTH DEM 30 and SRTM 30 LOS on each, that’s 39,800! How long? We run all LOS and make the entire network of 200 in about 4 minutes.

Stage 1

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- Identify ALL potential paths from your list of sites.

- TNT2 runs full path calculations with clearances from fresnel of user choice.

Stage 2

- If a direct impact, the path is out (red), if within 5% we keep (yellow), if clear then we either use it in the Scenario (green), or keep in All Paths (blue).

Red paths Yellow paths Green paths

Might be impacted Full clearanceBlocked

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Calculate and give a WAC rating system of importance to every site location. We are also able to run full Frequency Interference against existing Microwave for each ‘positive’ path.

- Each site gets multiple ratings for evaluation

- Hits and the hits of those hits are measured

- Azimuth availability (angle off each site)

- Fiber proximities (where data exists)

- Overall rankings

- Demographics

Future

- Priority to structure types, colocates

Stage 3

Nationwide Fiber Routes !

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Pre-interference calculations, Coordination (PCN)

Run full coordination discrimination interference analysis on each the potential paths against all existing paths.

For each potential path, interference analysis can be calculated against every existing path in that band and others. We check every possible pair which meets bandwidth requirements for interference against all the existing paths in that band.

We do this by checking discrimination angles, frequency separation and line-of-site site (mtn might be in the way) clearances. We then calculate the margin to objective and verify that it is within tolerances. We use all previously calculated averages found for the area as the “Interfering Path” parameters.

Interference to Victim calculations – per ‘All Paths’ checking.

Stage 4 (optional)

Look at existing and determine how many channels are available per band with no interference, over how many total.

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Generate a potential systemAll the data from WAC ratings, the input parameters, best Hubs, best links, best sites are used to suggest a starting point network to use, we call a Scenario.

If you like the Scenario, then this entire output is also sitting in our ‘Portfolio Path Design’ area for applying a cookie cutter Microwave radio/antenna budget all at once, to all paths in that Scenario….in a Flash!

Stage 5

Check your entire link-budget outputs for hundreds of links in minutes.

Want to design each more? They are also moved to our ‘Full MW design’ section for your engineering tweaks.

Want to Coordinate and File? We are approved FCC Coordinators and have even built this section into our SiteSync tool, just tell us which paths are ready to go!

Want to look at who is already using bands in the area? Run our ‘Information About Area Paths’ link and see all existing licensed MW frequencies, their average lengths, modulations of more.

Want it? License a per user seat today, that too is Dirt Simple.

Automation for the entire

Scenario to be processed

through your Link-

budgets

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For Path verifications, run our built-in full link-budget for the band in that area using typical equipment choices, then assign it as a Template to be used in TNT !

Availability = “5-Nines” (99.999)

Checks

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Game Changing.

SiteSync TNT2 Conclusions

-Decrease your lead time to market by producing complete designs in a flash.

-Reducing design man-hours by orders of magnitude

-Win competitive bids, via producing lighting fast, accurate, cost optimized designs

-Estimating CAPEX with assurance

-Substantial reduction of re-design efforts from failed LOS or frequency interference

-Minimize field analysis of LOS flashing due to increased confidence

-Big savings with on-line tools:

-instant availability to your staff

-no Server or PC integration and maintenance

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SiteSync Pro – API SuiteLaunched August 2010

"The Telecom API Suite is a well thought out, well organized, logically structured interface.Adding it to your site would be like finding the perfect car wax for your Audi;it takes a sports car and makes it shine.“ -Steve McConnell CEO Construx Software

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We give easy examples of usage for each of our major telecom areas. In each, we show users “How we use it” here at WAC, then how they can use simple Methods to Call the API and use it for their product interface.

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SiteSync Pro – API Suite DescriptionAPI = Application Programming Interface

-An API is an interface with given interactions and a set of functions used by components of a software system. A full API suite is generally bundled in libraries allowing use of different programming languages such as C# (“See Sharp”) PHP, Objective C (for iPhone) or Javascript with ‘hooks’ from the outside world to use it.

-APIs are always meant to address a specific process, e.g. Google Maps, Bing, ESRI API or many others.

-They are language-dependent for input, meaning they are only available by using the syntax and elements of a particular language the owner has chosen.

-For our WAC API to generate a RF Coverage the user could send a simple string of :http://WAC_API/1.0/eCoverage/init/?lat=39.8422&lon=-105.0926&api_key=(their key)

This makes the RF on our servers, then the additional string below, asks for the picture to display it http://WAC_API/1.0/eCoverage/getOutput/?propagationIdentifier=4730375&output=image&imageType=png&imageMapRes=4&imageHeight=400&imageWidth=600&api_key=(their key)

- They are also language-independent, meaning they are written so that it can be called from several types of programming languages as long as they end up sending the request in the correct format. This is a desirable feature for a service-oriented API that is not bound to a specific process or system and may be provided as remote procedure calls or web services.

-For example, a website that allows users to review local restaurants is able to layer their reviews over maps taken from Google Maps, because Google Maps has an API that facilitates this functionality. Google Maps' API controls what information a third-party site can use and how they can use it.

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SiteSync Pro – API SuiteTraditional process for having the FCC, FAA and Tower Company databases show towers in any application.

o Buy Hardware, such as a server and typical set up for internet. o Buy associated software for serving the site and database service such as SQL, ACCESS, ORACLE. o Download and get familiar with the multiple databases and types.

- FCC databases (there are about 15 different ones) are in zipped text formats, you will need the ASRs, MW apps and more.- FAA, there is a large OEAAA database in multiple text formats.- Tower Companies are increasingly hard to get data from either through their sites or by request.

They are generally in Excel formats. o Construct the field header layouts for each and construct relational database association.

- Some call a structure height “tip”, some “Tower”, some “AGL”, some don’t have it.- Some have null data in fields you need, some have misc ascii characters in fields you are not expecting.- The formats can change frequently between updates from any of the sources.- Data is generally polluted with bad records or data. Records that should have been deleted, or duplications, lots of duplications.

o Set up a input form or query interface for each. o Maintain the entire process every week as there can be thousands of changes. o Create a mapping interface for display. o Police the queries for ‘overflow’, bugs, errors and such.

OR run the same request through our API ! o Sign up to the WAC API method and simply request the following string; http://WAC API/structures/getByLatLon/?lat=39.9255&lon=-105.0899&api_key=(user key)

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SiteSync Pro – API Suite-Heavily engaged in developing our suite of products through API environment.

-We aim to become a major host to the Telecom industry through our API.

-Structures, Spectrum, RF Propagation, Microwave, demographics and others.

-We feel eCoverage and microwave worldwide to be the biggest interest.

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SiteSync Pro – API Suite-Full examples, free Development Keys, sample cut and paste code.

-Complete descriptions

-Easy bucket of Calls approach to purchase.

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SiteSync Pro – API Suite

-Fully integrated into our web site

-Knowledgeable and written for all types of people from Execs to Programmers to fully understand what it is.

- How we use it, - How you Call it,- How you can use it.

-Its Dirt Simple.


Thank you from

47.610590, -122.196593 111 108th Ave. NE., Suite A160 Bellevue, WA 98004

Phone: (425)-643-5000Fax: (425)-649-5675

Email: [email protected]: www.wirelessapplications.comMobile Website: m.wirelessapplications.com/

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