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telecommunication facilities above Ookala. And here you have a 180-foot tall tower that’s owned by AT&T; and T-Mobile is currently in the process of installing their antennae on this tower. Adjacent to that, Verizon has its antennae on a 200-foot tall Hawaiian Telecom guy tower. And if you go 2 miles further east you actually have a Sprint Nextel facility located here. Here’s an 80-foot tall tower just makai of the highway. Verizon has also installed an antennae there. And it’s my understanding that Mobi is planning to install an antennae there as well. So going back to Paauilo, the reason why I wanted to show this to the Commissioners today was because this two-mile difference is considerable for this industry; and by co-locating on the recently approved Verizon tower Anthem’s customers will not be able to bridge the gap in coverage between Paauilo town and Ookala. And it’s for this main reason that we are asking for the Commission’s support of the application today. WOODWARD: All right, thank you. Anyone have any questions or anything? Commissioner Ishibashi. ISHIBASHI: Thank you, Brother Chair. On your, who’s going to be using that, your tower? AT&T is going to tap in, Sprint, who? FOX: The tower was designed to accommodate six wireless service providers. At this time only three providers have committed to co-locating. That includes AT&T, T-Mobile, and Mobi. But Sprint Nextel has also expressed interest in co-locating. ISHIBASHI: So financially you can supply six different providers? FOX: Correct, correct. And Anthem has approached Verizon about possibly co- locating as well, but as we know their service areas is different and they’re focusing on the Honokaa side. ISHIBASHI: Okay, thank you. WOODWARD: Any other questions? Okay, seeing no further questions, thank you, sir. You may be seated. We do have Eric Kaneshiro from AT&T signed up to testify. Okay, if you could raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? KANESHIRO: I do. WOODWARD: If you will speak into the microphone, and then give us your name and address, and then you’re free to begin your testimony. KANESHIRO: Thank you. Eric Kaneshiro, I represent AT&T Wireless. Address is 1732 Palolo, 96816. Anthem has basically done much of the work. You know, we are co- locating on there. I just wanted to make a point that we really looked hard at the Verizon tower. AT&T and Verizon work well with each other. We work, we looked very hard at that tower. 5 EXHIBIT B