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TERAZONO: Well, I can’t speak for the coverage of the other networks. I don’t know their system where they have coverage holes, where they don’t. But our goal here is to provide solid coverage within that Kurtistown community so that if they do need to place a call and they press “send” they’ll have very reliable service. So that’s our goal here. As far as maybe what will happen with the other operators, I cannot speak on their network because that’s a different company that, you know, I don’t work for. DOMINGO: So every network just uses a different RF to, to enable users of a phone to make connections? TERAZONO: I think maybe how I can explain that is that AT&T operates on different channels. For example, they operate say on Channel 1, we operate say on Channel 10. And different channels have different characteristics in regards to the coverage footprint. Channel 1 may go a little bit farther than Channel 10, hence they have a little bit of an advantage to us because they’re on Channel 1 and we’re on Channel 10. So it’s some subtle differences there as far as coverage. If we’re saying that if AT&T and T-Mobile is on the same pole shouldn’t their coverage be exactly the same? The truth is it’s different from site to site, depending on what channel they are granted to use by the FCC. DOMINGO: What differentiates one channel from the other? TERAZONO: That’s something that -. DOMINGO: That’s radio frequency, huh? TERAZONO: It’s radio frequency, yes. So what it is is it’s bands or channels that we use that we purchase from the FCC. So AT&T purchase certain channels, we as T-Mobile purchase certain set of channels; and that’s, it’s very technical in nature. But to simplify it, you know, that’s why I use the one to ten channel scale. But there’s actually hundreds of channels, and the combination of them. I mean in some cases we have higher channels than them, in some cases we have lower channels than them. It varies from location to location basically. DOMINGO: You know, to carry this discussion further on, and although this, your answer on this one will not determine whether I’m going to say yes or no. But, you know, in the past when I used to travel from Honokaa to Hilo, you know, there’s certain, there’s an area in which the plantation is quarrying, you know, and then they say if you have any cell phones or mobile phones turn it off. Why is that? TERAZONO: There was signage saying to turn it off? DOMINGO: Oh, yes. TERAZONO: That I’m not sure why they had that. I mean I wouldn’t be able to answer that question. I’m not sure what was going on in the area. Maybe they had some very sensitive communication equipment that they were using that they potentially thought we could interfere with. Typically we don’t interfere with other communication equipment, but I’m really not sure EXHIBIT A 21