Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND FINANCE › Division - PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 80 - COMPETITION IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 6-80-4 - 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.
"Alternative regulation" means regulation other than rate
					 based or rate of return regulation.
"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 of a
					 business, professional, institutional, or occupational nature.
"Caller ID" means caller number identification
					 delivery.
"Central office" means a switching unit within an exchange
					 area having the necessary equipment and operating arrangements for terminating
					 and interconnecting access lines, toll lines, and trunks.
"Certificate of authority" or "COA" means the certificate
					 issued pursuant to §
										6-80-18(a).
"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 §
										6-80-18(b).
"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.
"Compensation agreement" means an arrangement or agreement
					 by which telecommunications carriers compensate each other for transporting and
					 terminating traffic on their respective networks.
"Consumer advocate" means the department of commerce and
					 consumer affairs, division of consumer advocacy, of the State.
"Cost-based" means based on the underlying cost of
					 providing a telecommunications facility, function, or service and includes, as
					 the context requires, total service long run incremental cost, imputed cost,
					 and allocated common cost.
"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.
"Customer complaint" or "complaint" includes trouble
					 reports and complaints concerning any service matter made or reported by a
					 customer to a telecommunications carrier or its service representative,
					 excluding directory assistance calls.
"Customer list information" means any information:
(1) Identifying the listed names of customers of a
					 telecommunications carrier and the customers' telephone numbers, addresses, or
					 primary advertising classification (as such classifications are assigned at the
					 time of the establishment of service), or any combination of such listed names,
					 numbers, addresses, and classifications; and
(2) That the telecommunications carrier or an affiliate has
					 published or caused to be published, or accepted for publication in any
					 directory format.
Customer list information does not include a customer's
					 name and telephone number or a customer's address or advertising classification
					 that the customer elects not to have listed for public dissemination or
					 published in any directory format.
"Economically reasonable" means without undue economic
					 hardship.
"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" or "exchange service area" means the
					 geographical territory served by an exchange.
"Exchange service" means telecommunications service
					 provided to business and residential customers within a given exchange service
					 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.
"Facilities" means the means used to provide
					 telecommunications service and includes programs, buildings, plants,
					 instruments, equipment, and every other paraphernalia, such as conduits, ducts,
					 poles, cables, wires, and switches, that facilitate the provision of
					 telecommunications service.
"FCC" means the Federal Communications Commission.
"Federal Telecommunications Act" means the Federal
					 Telecommunications Act of 1996.
"HRS" means the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
"Incumbent telecommunications carrier" or "incumbent
					 carrier" means the telecommunications carrier referred to in §269 7.5(c),
					 HRS.
"Interconnect" or "interconnection" means the interface of
					 the network of one telecommunications carrier with that of another
					 telecommunications carrier.
"Interconnector" means a telecommunications carrier that
					 interconnects with another carrier.
"Interisland" means between and among the islands of the
					 State.
"Interoffice" means between central offices.
"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.
"Market power" means the ability to control the
					 telecommunications market in terms of entry and price.
"Network" includes a telecommunications carrier's
					 facilities used to originate and terminate traffic.
"Non-incumbent telecommunications carrier" or
					 "non-incumbent carrier" means a telecommunications carrier other than the
					 incumbent telecommunications carrier.
"Number portability" means the ability of a customer to
					 retain, at the same location, the customer's existing telephone number, without
					 impairment of quality, reliability, or convenience, when changing or switching
					 from one telecommunications carrier to another; in other words, the telephone
					 number is "portable" between carriers.
"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.
"Personally identifiable customer information" means the
					 private, personal, and nonpublic information about a customer, including the
					 customer's non-listed or non-published name, address, or telephone number; age;
					 gender; social security number; billing, credit, or payment information,
					 history, and status; and any other information made available to a
					 telecommunications carrier by the customer solely by virtue of the
					 carrier-customer relationship. It also includes information relating to the
					 quantity, technical configuration, type, destination, and amount of use of a
					 telecommunications service subscribed to by a customer.
"Physical collocation" means the type of interconnection
					 provided by the telecommunications carrier to an interconnector where the
					 interconnector locates its equipment within a space assigned by a
					 telecommunications carrier for the interconnector's exclusive use and where the
					 interconnector has physical access and control over the interconnector's
					 equipment, subject to any applicable tariffs.
"Public utility" means the same as in §
										269-1, HRS.
"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.
"Rules" means the Hawaii Administrative Rules.
"Rural telephone carrier" means the same as 'rural
					 telephone company' in
					 47
					 U.S.C. §153.
"State" means the State of Hawaii.
"Tandem office" means a switching center that indirectly
					 interconnects two or more central offices when direct connection is not
					 available.
"Tariff" means the documents that describe the service or
					 product offered by the 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 service" means the same as in §269
					 1, HRS.
"Total service long run incremental cost" or "TSLRIC" means
					 the total additional cost to provide the entire forecasted quantity of service
					 divided by the forecasted quantity, based on the least cost, most efficient
					 technology that is capable of being implemented at the time the total service
					 incremental cost is calculated. The cost is calculated over a period long
					 enough to avoid all costs associated with the provision of the service (i.e.,
					 the time interval over which all plant, equipment, and other investments are to
					 be replaced). The forecasted quantity is the highest level of anticipated
					 annual demand for at least the next three years. Where a service or component
					 that is not fully competitive is used as an input to the service at issue, the
					 tariffed rate or charge paid by competitors is the cost of the service or
					 component. The costs of joint facilities, including loop costs, are excluded in
					 calculating the incremental cost.
"Traffic" means a flow of attempts, calls, messages, or
					 signals over a circuit, line, or group of lines. It includes the flow of voice,
					 data, image, and video attempts, calls, messages, and signals.
"Trunk" means a single or multichannel telecommunications
					 medium between two or more switching systems.
"Unbundle" or "unbundled" means the identification and
					 separation of the physical components, functions, and services of an exchange
					 network.
"U.S.C." means the United States Code.
"Virtual collocation" means the type of interconnection
					 provided by a telecommunications carrier to an interconnector that is
					 economically, technically, and administratively comparable to the manner in
					 which the telecommunications carrier's facilities interconnect with its own
					 network. It may, at the interconnector's discretion, include an arrangement
					 where the interconnector is provided equipment in a location under an
					 arrangement where the interconnector may not have ownership of the equipment
					 and does not have physical access or control, other than through remote
					 monitoring, subject to any applicable tariff.