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<br />KERN: Yeah, yeah.
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<br />SUNG: Coverage wise, the reason -.
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<br />KERN: It boggles my mind. I know that there’s a Verizon tower on the other side of Geothermal.
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<br />SUNG: Correct.
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<br />KERN: And I have Verizon and I drive that area all the time, and it does not work very well at all.
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<br />SUNG: Well, the problem is this – We’re under FCC guidelines. The output, the radiation output is extremely
<br />low. Now while it’s good that it’s low, the problem is it doesn’t go far. Now with the terrain, topography of,
<br />you know, where you’re driving, there will always be dead spots. So that’s the downfall when it comes to, you
<br />know, following FCC guidelines. Otherwise, if you want it to blast it all the way through, sure, you’re going to
<br />get coverage miles and miles away. But at the same time, you know, health wise it’s not, you know, we have to
<br />certainly look at that. So the output on all the cell towers under FCC guidelines, depending on how high the
<br />tower is and the output, is basically somewhat minimal. So that’s why you don’t catch it far. And that’s why
<br />there are so many needs for other towers to kind of cover that dead spot or to, for capacity issues -. Let’s say if
<br />you have two cell towers and you have a community that has grown and you have more users, subscribers, and
<br />more people use cell phones now, now that cell tower is only going to have so much capacity. So once you
<br />have, let’s say emergency situation, power outage, or earthquake, and even natural disasters, everybody, landline
<br />is down, everybody wants to use the cell phone, so what do they do? Cell phones. So everybody uses the cell
<br />phone same time, well, it’s full capacity, and that’s when you get dropped calls and nobody gets phone calls.
<br />So, and that’s why sometimes you just, there are more carriers who want to add more towers to provide the
<br />capacity issue as well as the coverage issue. So -.
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<br />KERN: Okay. And this one pretty much is partly going to cover just Leilani -?
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<br />SUNG: Leilani Estates.
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<br />KERN: And maybe either side of the road that passes it?
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<br />SUNG: Somewhat, yes. Well, and I think it was east/west or north/south, as well on that main road, Kupono, I
<br />forgot the road name, but also on the other side as well. And that’s why we want to be more in the middle than
<br />anywhere else, you know, not too far north and too far south. And that just worked, it just worked out that way.
<br />So -.
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<br />KERN: Commissioner Ishibashi.
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<br />ISHIBASHI: Thank you, Brother Chair. Should that pole fall, how many homes within the vicinity that would
<br />possibly get damaged if, whichever way it falls, your tower should fall in an earthquake?
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<br />SUNG: Well, I have never had a cell tower, I’ve never heard of a cell tower collapsing. And most cell towers,
<br />they are built in a sense where it collapses down instead of going, it’s a section that you install. So usually most
<br />cell towers, and I need to confirm that, they collapse straight down instead of going sideways, or one way or the
<br />other. So we, in most cases -. We follow setback guidelines. In Agricultural zones for Hawaii County the
<br />setback for Ag-1 is one-foot setback, no, five-foot setback, no, one-foot setback for every five-foot of the tower.
<br />So we follow that guideline. But as far as if a 150-foot tower falls down, it’s still within the property line. So it
<br />would just fall within Leilani Estates Association ground. It won’t hit any homes or what have you. But, once
<br />again, it most likely is going to collapse straight down. That’s how it’s designed.
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