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WOODWARD: Very good. Thank you. And I might just as a comment, I think it’s a great law because that way we don’t end up with sixteen cell towers. Now it’s, you know, this gets back into the not-in-my-backyard scenario. But to have one instead of having sixteen in the same area makes a lot of difference. WATANABE: Thank you. Mr. Domingo? DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With regards to roaming, you know, as you explained, why, you have a tower in that vicinity also nearby? TERAZONO: Your question is do we have a tower in Kurtistown? DOMINGO: Yeah. TERAZONO: The nearest one would probably be in Shipman Park -. DOMINGO: I see. TERAZONO: Which is probably six or seven miles down the road. DOMINGO: So why aren’t that concept of roaming applied to that where they can hitch on to another supplier and do that? TERAZONO: Okay, I understand. Actually -. DOMINGO: Instead of building a new tower in itself in this proposed location, why aren’t roaming providing that same kind of signals? TERAZONO: Okay. That is actually a great question. And actually today in Kurtistown our T-Mobile customers will in some places roam off AT&T. So that agreement is actually already in place. And part of the reason we are wanting to build this tower is that the coverage that AT&T provides is not good enough for our customers. They are dropping calls off AT&T’s network. So their network is not as, it’s probably a little bit better than ours, but it’s not that much better. DOMINGO: What about the other carriers like, like -? TERAZONO: Okay, Sprint, Verizon? DOMINGO: Yeah, Sprint or Verizon. TERAZONO: It really depends, like for example AT&T and T-Mobile share the same technology. Verizon and Sprint share the same technology; but Verizon and Sprint technology is not compatible with ours. So it’s a matter of compatible technology. So typically we can roam off AT&T but not Verizon or Sprint, purely because of a technology standpoint. EXHIBIT A 19