Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 269-38

  • 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 may allow telecommunications carriers to have pricing flexibility for services that the commission finds are effectively competitive; provided that universal service is preserved and advanced.