(a) The commission shall ensure that noncompetitive services shall not cross-subsidize competitive services. Cross-subsidization shall be deemed to have occurred:

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 269-39

  • 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
(1) If any competitive service is priced below the total service long-run incremental cost of providing the service as determined by the commission in subsection (b); or
(2) If competitive services, taken as a whole, fail to cover their direct and allocated joint and common costs as determined by the commission.
(b) The commission shall determine the methodology and frequency with which providers calculate total service long-run incremental cost and fully allocated joint and common costs. The total service long-run incremental cost of a service shall include an imputation of an amount equal to the contribution that the telecommunications carrier receives from noncompetitive inputs used by alternative providers in providing the same or equivalent service.

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