(a) Every cable operator shall provide safe, adequate, and reliable service in accordance with applicable laws, rules, franchise requirements, and its filed schedule of terms and conditions of service.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 440G-8.1

  • Cable operator: means any person or group of persons who:

    (1) Provides cable service over a cable system and directly or through one or more affiliates owns a significant interest in the cable system; or

    (2) Otherwise controls or is responsible for, through any arrangement, the management and operation of a cable system. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440G-3

  • Service area: means the geographic area for which a cable operator has been issued a cable franchise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440G-3
(b) The director shall require each cable operator to submit a schedule of all terms and conditions of service in the form and with the notice that the director may prescribe.
(c) The director shall ensure that the terms and conditions upon which cable service is provided are fair both to the public and to the cable operator, taking into account the geographic, topographic, and economic characteristics of the service area and the economics of providing cable service to subscribers in the service area.

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