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WOODWARD: That’s all right. WATANABE: Any further questions for -? Does not look like it. Jonathan. SAMBUENO: Hello. My name is Jonathan Sambueno. My address is HCR1, Box 5025, Keaau, 96749. So I’m pretty familiar with living in the Puna area. I’m also, you know, I come from a single parent family; and coming from a single parent family, you know, I grew up somewhat in poverty. You know, obviously, I turned out okay, I’m not living on the streets right now. So things were all right at times. But one of the things I always remembered when I was a kid is my mother always being worried about her car breaking down. And so in a way, yes, I’d like to elaborate more on emergency use. I think that’s a really important thing. And, in general, we’re all here for the same thing; we’re all here for the community. I realize that there is some money involved. But every week working the way I do, I’m a T-Mobile sales rep, I work for an indirect dealer, every week I hear testimony from our customers about how cell phones help them. I think that emergency use of cell phones is the primary concern. A lot of people coming up and down the Volcano Highway don’t have reception as they’re driving through there. And just the other week I remember talking to some customers who purchased some phones from us, and the situation was basically that they had, it was a husband and wife in their mid-fifties and their mother was about, I’d say, in her mid-seventies or so, you know, an older lady. And obviously being that she was working at the Mauna Loa Mac Nut Factory late shifts until 3 o’ clock in the morning obviously they weren’t financially secured, so to speak. The three of them all, you know, kind of pulling together to make things, you know, make ends meet. So one of their main concerns was that, you know, driving down Volcano Highway through the Panaewa Stretch to get to the Mauna Loa Factory at any point where if one of their cars were to break down without a cell phone they’re just, you know, out of luck. And that’s definitely my main goal in selling T- Mobile, is to help people. And I worked for a lot of different cell phone companies and I’ve seen the things that T-Mobile can do for the community. I’ve read about all the disaster relief preparation they’ve done for, you know, people in areas like Louisiana when Katrina hit and stuff like that. So in general I feel like this tower would definitely benefit the community. WATANABE: Thank you. Mr. Iwashita. IWASHITA: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess just to clarify some vagueness right now in my mind is basic -, your coverage is not as good as Verizon or AT&T right now in this area. Is that -? SAMBUENO: Correct, sir. IWASHITA: Okay. And so, you know, given Commissioner Woodward’s reference to, you know, laws requiring co-sharing and all of that, why aren’t the existing infrastructure or, can you explain why that’s not being shared now? Why do we need a new tower when Verizon and AT&T have coverage over this area? SAMBUENO: Well, basically, first of all Verizon and AT&T are both separate types of EXHIBIT A 5