Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND FINANCE › Division - PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 79 - AGGREGATOR AND OPERATOR SERVICE › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 6-79-4 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly
					 requires otherwise:
"Access code" means a sequence of numbers that, when
					 dialed, connects the caller to the provider of operator service associated with
					 that sequence.
"Aggregator" means the same as in §
										269-16.8,
					 HRS.
"Call" means a customer's telecommunications message
					 attempted.
"Call splashing" means the transfer of a telephone call
					 from one provider of operator services to another such provider in such a
					 manner that the subsequent provider is unable or unwilling to determine the
					 location of the origination of the call and, because of such inability or
					 unwillingness, is prevented from billing the call on the basis of such
					 location.
"Certificate of authority" or "COA" means the certificate
					 issued pursuant to chapter
					 6-80, subchapter
					 2.
"Certificate of public convenience and necessity" or "CPCN"
					 means the certificate issued pursuant to §
										269-7.5,
					 HRS.
"Certificate of registration" or "COR" means the
					 certificate issued pursuant to chapter
					 6-80, subchapter
					 2.
"Commission" means the public utilities commission of the
					 State.
"Customer" means any person who uses any telephone made
					 available by an aggregator for purposes of aggregating calls and providing
					 operator-assisted calls through access to an operator service provider.
"HRS" means the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
"Incumbent telecommunications carrier" or "incumbent
					 carrier" means the telecommunications carrier referred to in §
										269-7.5(c),
					 HRS.
"Local exchange carrier" means a telecommunications
					 carrier, other than an operator service provider, that provides
					 telecommunications service to the aggregator.
"Operator service" means the same as in §
										269-16.8,
					 HRS, and includes the completion of calls through a live operator or automated
					 system, whether the calls are paid for through billing, calling card, or credit
					 card or through the person called (collect calls) and includes the completion
					 of person-to-person and third-party calls.
"Operator service provider" or "provider" means a
					 telecommunications carrier that provides operator service or any other person
					 determined by the commission to be providing operator service.
"Person" includes individuals, partnerships, corporations,
					 associations, joint stock companies, public trusts, organized groups of
					 persons, whether incorporated or not, receivers or trustees of the foregoing,
					 municipalities, including cities, counties, or other political subdivisions of
					 the State, or any agency, authority, or instrumentality of the State, or any
					 one or more of the foregoing.
"Presubscribed operator service provider" means the
					 provider of operator service to which a customer is connected when the customer
					 places a call.
"Rules" mean the Hawaii Administrative Rules.
"State" means the State of Hawaii.
"Tariff" means the documents that describe the service or
					 product offered by a telecommunications carrier and prescribe the terms and
					 conditions and the schedule of rates and charges under which the service or
					 product is offered.
"Telecommunications carrier" means the same as in §
										269-1, HRS, and
					 includes the incumbent telecommunications carrier.
"Telecommunications relay service" means the same as relay
					 services for the deaf, hearing-impaired, and speech-impaired under §
										269-16.6,
					 HRS.
"Telecommunications service" means the same as in §
										269-1,
					 HRS.