Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND FINANCE
Division - PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
Chapter 80 - COMPETITION IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES
Subchapter 11 - PROHIBITED ACTS
Section 6-80-129 - Prohibited acts

(1) File, submit, or present to the commission an application, petition, tariff, or other document that contains false or misleading information, facts, or materials, or that omits material information, facts, or materials;

(2) Engage in subsidization of competitive services by noncompetitive services, predatory pricing, price discrimination, or other similar anti-competitive behavior;

(3) Refuse to negotiate with others in good faith, or refuse to use its best efforts in negotiating;

(4) Engage in acts, conduct, or behavior with the sole purpose of delaying negotiations;

(5) Unreasonably refuse or delay access to its exchange by another telecommunications carrier;

(6) Unreasonably refuse to provide or delay interconnection or unbundling to another telecommunications carrier;

(7) Provide inferior interconnections to another telecommunications carrier;

(8) Degrade the quality of access provided to another telecommunications carrier;

(9) Impair the speed, quality, or efficiency of access lines used by another telecommunications carrier;

(10) Upon bona fide request, unreasonably refuse to fully disclose in a timely manner all information necessary to achieve the objectives of subchapters 5, 6, and 7;

(11) Unreasonably bundle unwanted services or products for sale or lease to another telecommunications carrier;

(12) Sell services or products, extend credit, or offer other terms and conditions on more favorable terms to an affiliate of the telecommunications carrier, or to the carrier's retail department, than to other carriers;

(13) Prevent or prohibit customers from terminating the carrier's service at any time without penalty or liability, except business customers who are served by special contracts and customers who sign up for services underwritten service agreements that specifically include a penalty or liability for early termination of service, in which case, the carrier's tariff must set forth such penalty or liability;

(14) Substitute its service for a similar service provided by a carrier of the customer's choice or cause a telecommunications service to be provided to a customer by a telecommunications carrier other than the carrier of the customer's choice, without the customer's written consent;

(15) Fail to respect the privacy of personally identifiable customer information as provided in § 6-80-115;

(16) Violate any applicable State law or commission order or rule; or

(17) Engage in any action, conduct, or behavior contrary or detrimental to the public interest.