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approved, IÓm still having a hard time grasping where we stand w <br />efficiency of the network. <br />YUEN:Can I comment on that? <br />FUJIKAWA:Go ahead. <br />YUEN:There are a number of companies that are involved and then <br />have, you have tower companies that put up towers. What the Commissioner said before, <br />and is entirely correct, that itÓll be much better to try to do this on a comprehensive basis <br />rather than on a site-by-site, permit-by-permit basis. ThereÓs no question about that. We <br />did make some effort in the department to move toward that end. <br />obvious to me, though, that for the department to do it, I would have to contract it out, I <br />would have to secure money from the County budget and, that we would not be able to <br />do this in-house due to staffing limitations and, also, due to a lot of the technical aspect. <br />ItÓs a very technical area. I have not, due to overall requests from the County <br />administration about how much they, how much you were supposed t <br />ask for additional funding, I have not requested funding for that project. <br />FUJIKAWA:Any other questions? None? You, Mr. Chun, go ahead. <br />CHUN:If I may, on the matter of co-location, for the record, Nextel in <br />Hawaii, well, Nextel Corporate, we encourage and support co-location for other carriers <br />to come on our towers and for ourselves to go on other carriersÓ towers. In fact, as we <br />speak this morning, we are under construction on two 18-T towers on the south side of <br />the Big Island, Pahala and KaÓu. I mean, it made no sense for us to build another tower <br />when thereÓs towers right there, right? When we look at and evaluate a search ring, the <br />first thing we do is look at existing towers. Only if weÓre unsuccessful for whatever <br />reasons in securing that tower, then we have to look at building our own tower. We donÓt <br />like to build our own towers. I mean, theyÓre expensive, you know, cost a lot of money, <br />itÓs a lot of planning, lot of hassle, that sort of thing. So we do support co-location. <br />FUJIKAWA:I understand. And you are sitting there very quietly. You are also <br />testifying on this behalf? Are you with Nextel? <br />YOUNG:IÓm a consultant with them, yes. <br />FUJIKAWA:You have anything to say? <br />YOUNG:Well, as far as the -. <br />FUJIKAWA:Your name was -? <br />YOUNG:Carl Young. <br />13 <br /> <br />