Hawaiian customers of Oceanic Time Warner Cable can now obtain the cable company’s free viewing app for iPad — TWCable TV.

Although the cable operator has offered the free online viewing app for months, it has not worked in Hawaii until this week.

“We are tremendously excited about this app, which is the first of many that will allow our customers to harness the power of their tablet-type devices,” said Bob Barlow, president of Oceanic Time Warner Cable.

Time Warner customers can use the app only within range of their home wireless router connected to Time Warner’s Road Runner Internet service.  Restrictions imposed by the cable company and programmers mean customers cannot access the service from other broadband providers or outside of their own home.

Time Warner also requires TWCable TV app users to maintain a cable television subscription and register for access on the company’s website.