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WATANABE: Yeah, basically all you’re saying is roaming is we switch over the communication and utilize the partner’s, shall we say, equipment technology? TERAZONO: Absolutely, that’s correct. WATANABE: Okay. Mr. Woodward. WOODWARD: Mr. Chairman, thank you. You answered the technical question. The question that I have, and when we had this issue addressed with this 120-foot monopole that we issued a special permit for in Kohala, they had already planned on putting five or six different cell phone companies on that tower, and you say that technically that’s not a problem. Do you have, do you have any plans now for coordinating this with other cell phone companies? TERAZONO: Okay, let me, probably the answer to that question is when we planned for this site, for example, the structure that we’re going to erect is needed to support “x” amount of operators as far as structural capacity. Whether we have plans to invite other operators in, no, that’s not something that we do. If another operator came and wanted to co-locate on, we’d definitely cooperate with them and work with them in that sense. But there’s currently, as far as I know, no plans for another operator to co-locate. I’m not sure, maybe you guys might know? WOODWARD: Well, maybe, follow-up. There is now a Statute that people that build cell towers have to offer other companies -. TERAZONO: Right, yeah. WOODWARD: The ability to co-locate. TERAZONO: Yes. WOODWARD: It’s not an option for you. TERAZONO: That’s correct, yes. WATANABE: Maybe, maybe I can clarify a little bit more. I think what he’s trying to say is they don’t have any specific co-location agreements as of yet because they don’t know if they’re going to have a tower yet. But when they do have the tower, they definitely, I think economically also, it would be to their benefit to have co-location occur cause then it lowers their cost. You had something to say, sir? KAWABATA: Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To your answer to that, we do not solicit other carriers up front to do co-locations on the towers on an upfront basis. We do open it up for co-locations to all of the carriers, that we all have agreements between the individual carriers for that co-location type of agreements. I understand the Statute that you are referring to and it, all of our towers are always available for other carriers to co-locate upon. It’s a business decision that each individual carrier will make on their own whether they will be co-locating or applying for co-location or not. EXHIBIT A 18