Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND FINANCE › Division - PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 81 - UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 6-81-4 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly
					 requires otherwise:
"Access" means access to an exchange network for the
					 purpose of enabling a telecommunications carrier to originate or terminate
					 exchange service.
"Access line" means the medium over which a customer
					 connects to an exchange network.
"Administrator" means the administrator of the universal
					 service fund.
"Basic exchange service" or "basic service" means the same
					 as in §
										6-81-19.
"Bona fide request" means a written request made in good
					 faith, with earnest intent and without fraud, deceit, or pretense.
"Business customer" means a customer to whom business
					 service is provided.
"Business service" means the telecommunications service
					 provided to a customer where the use is primarily or substantially for a
					 business, professional, institutional, or occupational nature.
"Carrier of last resort" means the telecommunications
					 carrier designated by the commission to be eligible for disbursements from the
					 State universal service fund for a specific high cost area.
"Commercial mobile radio service" means the same as in
					 47
					 U.S.C. §§153(n)
					 and
					 332(d)(1).
					 It includes cellular, paging, and personal communications services.
"Commission" means the public utilities commission of the
					 State.
"Consumer advocate" means the department of commerce and
					 consumer affairs, division of consumer advocacy, of the State.
"Customer" includes any person:
(1) Who has requested or applied for telecommunications
					 service from a telecommunications carrier;
(2) Currently receiving telecommunications service from a
					 telecommunications carrier; or
(3) Who moves to another location within a
					 telecommunications carrier's service territory and requests that
					 telecommunications service be discontinued at the previous location and begun
					 at the new location.
"Elementary school" means a nonprofit institutional day or
					 residential school that provides elementary education, as determined under
					 State law.
"Enhanced 911" means the same as "statewide enhanced 911
					 emergency telephone service," in §269 16.95, HRS.
"Exchange" means a unit established and described in the
					 tariff of a telecommunications carrier for the provision of service within a
					 specific, prescribed geographical area, such as a city, town, or community and
					 its environs. An exchange may consist of one or more central offices together
					 with associated
facilities used in furnishing telecommunications service
					 within the specific geographical or exchange area.
"Exchange area" means the geographical territory served by
					 an exchange.
"Exchange service" means the telecommunications service
					 provided to business and residential customers within a given exchange area in
					 accordance with tariffs, including the use of exchange facilities required to
					 establish connections:
(1) Between customer locations within the exchange;
					 and
(2) Between customer locations and trunks accessing other
					 exchanges. "FCC" means the Federal Communications Commission.
"Health care provider" means:
(1) A post-secondary educational institution offering
					 health care instruction, a teaching hospital, and a medical school;
(2) A community health center or a health center providing
					 health care to migrants;
(3) A governmental health department or agency;
(4) A community mental health center;
(5) A not-for-profit hospital;
(6) A rural health clinic; and
(7) A consortia of health care providers consisting of one
					 or more entities described in paragraphs (1) to (6).
"High cost area" means a given geographical or exchange
					 area within the State designated as high cost, pursuant to §
										6-81-52(b).
"Household" means a family or a group of individuals who
					 live together in the same dwelling, such as a single family home, apartment, or
					 condominium unit, provided that such family or group is not comprised
					 exclusively of individuals who have other primary residences or who are claimed
					 as dependents on the tax returns of other persons. A household may consist of
					 an individual who shares a dwelling unit with others and contributes toward the
					 expenses of the unit, but maintains a separate, independent livelihood and
					 occupies, on an exclusive basis, a clearly defined area in the dwelling
					 unit.
"HRS" means the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
"Incumbent telecommunications carrier" or "incumbent
					 carrier" means the telecommunications carrier referred to in §269 7.5(c),
					 HRS.
"Lifeline telephone program" means the program of providing
					 discounted residential telephone rates to elders with limited income and to the
					 handicapped with limited income, as described in §
										269-16.5(b),
					 HRS.
"Low income customer" means a residential customer who
					 meets the eligibility criteria to participate in the low income assistance
					 program, pursuant to §§
										6-81-44 and
					 6-81-45.
"Network" includes a telecommunications carrier's
					 facilities used to originate and terminate traffic.
"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 of any
					 one or more of the foregoing.
"Public institution" or "public institutional
					 telecommunications user" means an elementary or secondary school, a library, or
					 a health care provider.
"Resale" or "resell" means the offering or provision of
					 telecommunications service by a telecommunications carrier through the use of
					 services or facilities owned, maintained, or provided by another
					 telecommunications carrier.
"Residential customer" means a customer to whom residential
					 service is provided.
"Residential service" means the telecommunications service
					 provided to a customer predominantly for personal or domestic use at the
					 customer's residence or dwelling.
"Secondary school" means a nonprofit institutional day or
					 residential school that provides secondary education, as determined under State
					 law, except that the term does not include any education beyond grade
					 12.
"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 the 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.
"U.S.C." means the United States Code.
"Universal service" means the offering and providing of
					 basic exchange service to all customers in the State at affordable, just, and
					 reasonable rates.
"Universal service fund" or "fund" means the State
					 universal service fund.