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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN CAPITAL FACILITIES AND UTILITIES ELEMENT 2. Electricity. (b) Cellular Telephone Service The Snohomish County Public Utilities District (PUD), No. 1 provides electrical Cellular Telephone Service is provided to the services to the Everett area. This District city of Everett by US WEST Cellular and serves Snohomish County, providing elec- Cellular One, each of which is assigned half tricity to over 220,000 subscribers. of the available radio frequencies by the Bonneville Power Administration supplies Federal Communications Commission (FCC). PUD #1 with electrical power from three The FCC regulates the use of radio frequen- delivery points in the County. cies throughout the United States. Cellular phone communications are used throughout Capacity assessments for the PUD No. 1 the Puget Sound area by business and focus on analysis of"System Peak Demand"-- professional communities, the agricultural the largest amount of power the utility is community and a variety of public and private called upon to deliver at any one time. The endeavors including police, emergency and Normal System Peak Demand is expected to medical service providers. rise from the 1989 level of 1337 megawatts to around 1645 megawatts in 2001, an (1) US WEST Cellular. US WEST Cellular increase of nearly 23%. is a division of US WEST NewVector Group, a subsidiary of US WEST Inc. Offering The PUD No. 1 plans to use a combination of mobile communications and a line of commu- conservation programs/techniques and im- nication services for other cellular operators, 11. provements in system operation to assure US WEST Cellular is licensed by the FCC to adequate service to growing populations in provide cellular telephone service to an area the Everett area. A five-year plan of mod- encompassing fourteen western states. ernization, replacement and maintenance has been outlined by the PUD. Expansion of the US WEST Cellular system is guided by their comprehensive plan (a 15- I 3. Telecommunications. year planning document) and the Five Year Growth Plan. These plans encompass the (a) Telephone Service. area just south of Olympia to Bellingham and from the Sound to the Cascades. Telephone service is regulated by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Extension of coverage of cellular services is Committee and provided by GTE to the accomplished by constructing new cell sites Everett area. GTE currently serves approxi- or increasing capacity of the existing system. mately 55,000 residential and commercial The location of cellular equipment is customers. Operations include above ground restricted by the Federal Aviation Admini- switching stations and aerial and buried cable. stration and existing radio transmitters. t! Capacity is expanded by additions of cable to (2) Cellular One. Cellular One offers cellular existing lines or replacement of a smaller phone services including mobile phones, 111. capacity cable with a larger capacity cable. portables and transportables. In addition to This results in a virtually limitless capacity for voice communications, cellular technology telephone service. can also be used to send and receive r CF-21