Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 269-37

  • telecommunications: means the offering of transmission between or among points specified by a user, of information of the user's choosing, including voice, data, image, graphics, and video without change in the form or content of the information, as sent and received, by means of electromagnetic transmission, or other similarly capable means of transmission, with or without benefit of any closed transmission medium, and does not include cable service as defined in § 440G-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 269-1

The commission shall ensure that telecommunications carriers are compensated on a fair basis for termination of telecommunications services on each other’s networks, taking into account, among other things, reasonable and necessary costs to each telecommunications carrier of providing the services in question. Telecommunications carriers may negotiate compensation arrangements, that may include “bill and keep”, mutual and equal compensation, or any other reasonable division of revenues pending tariff access rates to be set by the commission. Upon failure of the negotiations, the commission shall determine the proper methodology and amount of compensation.