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WATANABE: Okay, thank you. So, Laurie, I guess you’re going to begin? Is that -? <br />CHAN: Yes. Well, I guess if any of the Commissioners -- basically because this is <br />a continued hearing -- if you had any other questions or -. <br />WATANABE: Okay. It seems we already have at least one burning question, which <br />would be the co-location matter and the ability to co-locate, etc. So, I think that was raised by <br />Mr. Iwashita and also Mr. Domingo, so I don’t know which one of you would address that. <br />TERAZONO: Okay, I think I should probably answer that question. So my role at <br />T-Mobile, my title is called RF Engineer, RF is radio frequency, engineer. So part of my job is <br />to analyze the network and see where we have coverage holes, problems with our customers. So <br />I’m the technical guy at T-Mobile. The question is, really I think I want to clarify a couple of <br />things. So there is something called co-location. And what is co-location? I want to clarify that. <br />So there’s two, maybe two confusing points where one is called roaming and one is called co- <br />location. And it sounds like you guys have been very familiar with some wireless <br />communication sites, but I just want to quickly, you know, explain what co-location is. So <br />co-location is primarily at a tower, there’s one tower, and co-location means that there’s <br />T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon, Nextel, AT&T that can co-locate on the same tower together, <br />basically using one structure to operate multiple networks from different companies. So I <br />believe the question was why -. One of the questions that I heard was, well, why didn’t we co- <br />locate on existing towers in the area. And the answer to that question is actually we are co- <br />located on existing towers in the area. The nearest site that we have is in Shipman; and Shipman <br />we are on a site where it’s shared with, I believe, Verizon. So we share that. Why does Verizon <br />have coverage there and we don’t? Verizon operates a different network at a different frequency <br />and, you know, there are some subtle differences between the different networks. So their <br />technology, their handsets that they use, are very different from ours. So they may have <br />coverage in areas where we do not, and they, we may have coverage in areas where they do not. <br />But they operate on a completely different network than ours. So hopefully that kind of explains <br />that scenario there. <br />In regards to can operators co-locate? Absolutely. There is no problem with Operator A <br />interfering with Operator B. It happens all the time. I think someone spoke of a communication <br />facility in Kohala that’s going to house six operators. So that portion of it we can definitely co- <br />locate and work together and not interfere with each other or degrade each other’s signal in any <br />way. <br />The other question, I think maybe the other confusing point that maybe some of the sales guys <br />were talking about was roaming. Roaming is something very different from co-location. And <br />what roaming is is when our customers are allowed to use AT&T’s network or AT&T’s <br />customers are allowed to use our network. And how that works is T-Mobile pays AT&T to <br />allow our customers to use their network in certain areas, not necessarily sharing equipment or <br />sharing a tower. So there are two differences there. I hope we can understand and clarify that. <br />Does that, does that make sense? <br /> EXHIBIT A 17 <br /> <br />