2021-06-03 Windward Exh A AT&T Mobility USE 21-000087

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REPLOGLE: Okay, please state your name and town where you reside and then you may testify. Thank you. TODD: Does the hand stays up or— REPLOGLE: No, no, no, you can put it down. TODD: —Alright, so, my name is Kazuo Todd and I reside in Hilo. The reason why I wanted to testify is on behalf of the Fire Department. REPLOGLE: Okay. TODD: So, can I go ahead? REPLOGLE: Yes, yes, please do,please do. TODD: Okay, so I want to make it brief I do have to head down to the County Council here to ask them for more money. But essentially right now when it comes to cell phone towers and poles the Fire Department generally speaking is for them. The reason for it is one from the safety of our community. So, from people that are traveling the road this part of the old Saddle Highway it's a dangerous location. A lot of people are taking tight curves at too high speed and then they flip a car and so having good cell phone coverage up there to be able to call in to nine one one (911) is very important for us. So, more cell phone tower in these areas that are just devoid of any kind of coverage is very very useful in order for us to be able to get that call quickly so that we can start dispatching units. Often times in the past it would be someone would come across an accident but then they would have to go drive farther down for a couple of miles before they hit signal and then they could put in that call and that just wastes time for our response in terms of getting there to deal with someone who might bleeding out or having medical issues that need immediate treatment. So, time is a factor and having good cell phone coverage on the Saddle is important. The other side is from the responder side itself. So, for our responders we make use of the data that is transmitted between those towers and our dispatch center and our computers as well as cell phones that on the rig. So, while we have own radios, and we have systems out there to talk on the radio which is different from the cell phone towers. Nowadays a lot of the information that is being sent out to our units is being done on what is known as a Mobile Data Terminal (MDT). So, it's a computer that is being installed in a lot of our ambulances and now our trucks and everything else and I have latest generation on my desktop here that we're working to push out in our vehicles very soon. So, having these cell towers that can transmit data especially on like the AT&T line which is the current holder of the FirstNet contract is very important for us because it allows us to have up to date data as our units are responding to scene from mapping to the Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) comments that our dispatchers are putting down about what's actually going on because if the radio signals cut out we don't have that information. So, in the mix of having both radio and the cell phone data transmission allows us to have a better understanding of what kind of 4 EXHIBIT A