Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND FINANCE › Division - PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 82 - PAY TELEPHONE SERVICE › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 6-82-3 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly
					 requires otherwise:
"Aggregator" means the same as in §
										269-16.8,
					 HRS.
"ANI" means automatic number identification.
"Call" means a customer's telecommunications message
					 attempted.
"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.
"Completed call" means a call answered by the called party.
					 A call is answered by a called party when the call is answered by a human
					 recipient, an answering device, or a call processing device. A call is not a
					 completed call when it reaches a telecommunications carrier's platform for
					 routing to a called party.
"Consumer advocate" means the department of commerce and
					 consumer affairs, division of consumer advocacy, of the State.
"CFR" means the Code of Federal Regulations.
"FCC" means the Federal Communications Commission.
"HRS" means the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
"Incumbent telecommunications carrier" or "incumbent
					 carrier" means the telecommunications carrier referred to in §
										269-7.5(c),
					 HRS.
"Independent pay telephone service provider" means a pay
					 telephone service provider other than the incumbent telecommunications carrier
					 and includes both a telecommunications carrier and a non-telecommunications
					 carrier.
"Interisland" means between and among the islands of the
					 State.
"Interstate" means between and among the states of the
					 United States, the territories of the United States, and the District of
					 Columbia.
"Intrastate" means within the State.
"LATA" means local access and transport area.
"Local call" means a call within the same island, as
					 opposed to an interisland call.
"Long distance" includes interisland, interstate, and
					 international telecommunications service.
"Operator service" means a service provided by a
					 telecommunications carrier to assist a customer to complete a telephone
					 call.
"Pay telephone" means a telephone that is accessible by the
					 public for use on a fee per call basis, independent of any other commercial
					 transaction, and is activated for placing telephone calls by inserting a coin,
					 calling collect, or using a calling card or by any other means. It includes a
					 public pay telephone (i.e., a pay telephone installed in a public place),
					 semi-public pay telephone (i.e., a pay telephone installed in a semi-public
					 place, such as a store, restaurant, bar, and government facilities), and
					 institutional pay telephone; provided that the term does not include the
					 in-room telephone service described in §
										6-82-1(b)(2).
"Pay telephone service" means the provision of a pay
					 telephone and any ancillary services.
"Pay telephone service provider" or "provider" means any
					 person that provides pay telephone service. It includes the incumbent
					 telecommunications carrier and independent pay telephone service
					 providers.
"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.
"Rules" means the Hawaii Administrative Rules.
"State" means the State of Hawaii.
"Tariff" means the documents that describe the service or
					 product offered by the pay telephone service provider 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.
"User" means a person who uses a pay telephone to initiate
					 a call.
"U.S.C." means the United States Code.