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
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.
