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Need cal fire, we need dwr, they are invested in restoring their Critical Infrastructure and its our responsibility to reach across those lines to get that kind of access to keep that kind of restoration underway. Thank you. Mr. Brig. In terms of establishing standards for resill yepbs, absolutely, we have done that. Again as i mentioned earlier, to get our customers to fund all these Capital Projects we did up a contract with them. This is what youre getting and this is what youre going to pay ...

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Control centers that manage all our cell sites. We have about 300 cell sites per switch and in the bay area we have about 4 switches. What we have there is also backup power so we have batteries, we have generators, not only one generator, sometimes we have 3 generators to account for failure for one of those generators. Then in these switchers we have servers, fiber optics, all kinds of equipment to process calls from one point to another and we have backup systems on top of backup systems to s...

Put that together and get it to them. They are worried about the incident in their jurisdiction which they have to correct. Its our responsibility to reach bond those borders as their extension to bring in the reserves that they need to maintain that kaupblt newt of operation and then where we function through the state Utility Operations Center and the state Operations Center to make sure that we have that kind of access and that kind of assistance. We need caltrans, were going to need chp, wer...

Put that together and get it to them. They are worried about the incident in their jurisdiction which they have to correct. Its our responsibility to reach bond those borders as their extension to bring in the reserves that they need to maintain that kaupblt newt of operation and then where we function through the state Utility Operations Center and the state Operations Center to make sure that we have that kind of access and that kind of assistance. We need caltrans, were going to need chp, wer...

Strike teams from water companies. They simply make a call and tell us we need 10, 12, 15, its our obligation to put that together and get it to them. They are worried about the incident in their jurisdiction which they have to correct. Its our responsibility to reach bond those borders as their extension to bring in the reserves that they need to maintain that kaupblt newt of operation and then where we function through the state Utility Operations Center and the state Operations Center to make...

Function through the state Utility Operations Center and the state Operations Center to make sure that we have that kind of access and that kind of assistance. We need caltrans, were going to need chp, were going to need cal fire, we need dwr, they are invested in restoring their Critical Infrastructure and its our responsibility to reach across those lines to get that kind of access to keep that kind of restoration underway. Thank you. Mr. Brig. In terms of establishing standards for resill yep...

Backup generators as well. We have about 4 days of stand by time to about maybe 10 days and then on top of that we have vendors that we work with that are on stand by to make sure that we can refuel our cell sites and also maintain them if our generators do go out of service. And then as far as our switches, so the switches are control centers that manage all our cell sites. We have about 300 cell sites per switch and in the bay area we have about 4 switches. What we have there is also backup po...

Big situations occur and major interruptions happen in particular areas. Thank you. Okay, our last question, have you established standards for resilience in cooperation with other lifeline providers and how systems should perform in an earthquake . Ill go ahead and talk about pg e. I would say first off weve designed our own standards for what should happen in an earthquake or any other major emergency. Our electric system is designed to worry about trees and wind and rain, which is what we see...