5. FIXED NETWORK SERVICES
In the event that the section(s) relating to Fixed Network Services is completed on the relevant Order Form, this condition 5 shall apply to the Contract.
5.1 DURATION. Subject to earlier termination under condition 13 or as otherwise stated in this condition 5:
5.1.1 The Fixed Network Services will commence on the Connection Date and continue for the Minimum Term as set out on the Order Form.
5.1.2 Unless the Customer terminates the Contract in accordance with condition 5.1.3 or the Customer is a Small Business Customer (in which case see condition 5.1.4) then, upon the expiry of the Minimum Term, or any anniversary of that date thereafter, the Contract will renew automatically for further periods of three months.
5.1.3 Unless the Customer is a Small Business Customer (in which case see condition 5.1.4), the Customer may terminate the Contract by giving ninety days' notice in writing to the Company, such notice to become effective no earlier than the expiry of the Minimum Term or upon each anniversary of such date thereafter (as applicable) where the Contract has renewed automatically pursuant to condition 5.1.2.
5.1.4 Where the Customer is a Small Business Customer, the Customer may terminate the Contract by giving ninety days' notice in writing to the Company, such notice to become effective no earlier than the expiry of the Minimum Term.
5.2 SUPPLY OF FIXED NETWORK SERVICES
5.2.1 Any Contract for Fixed Network Services based on an order which is accepted by the Company pursuant to condition 2.1 is (prior to the Connection Date) conditional on the following: (a) the Company carrying out a survey which reveals to the Company's satisfaction that it is possible for the Company to supply the Fixed Network Services and that any details or information used by the Company to determine the Charges applicable or any other terms of the Contract, whether supplied by the Customer or otherwise, are accurate and not misleading. The Charges may change depending on the results of such survey (including, without limit, where there are excess construction charges associated with a Site);
(b) that the relevant Fixed Network Services can be provided, and the Company makes no warranty that the Fixed Network Services can be provided until lines have been installed and are operational; and (c) the provision by the Company of confirmation by email to the Customer that the terms stated on the Order Form of the applicable Contract for Fixed Network Services do not contain any errors or omissions.
5.2.2 The Company undertakes to use reasonable endeavours to supply the Fixed Network Services to the Customer and to provide the Fixed Network Services with reasonable skill and care as and from the Connection Date subject to these Conditions. The Customer acknowledges that the Fixed Network Services cannot be guaranteed to be fault free and the Company does not warrant error free or uninterrupted use of the Fixed Network Services. Notwithstanding any other provision of these Conditions, the Company shall not be liable to the Customer in contract, tort (including, but not limited to, negligence), or otherwise for any acts or omissions of Carriers which affect or otherwise impact the Fixed Network Services.
5.2.3 Subject to the continuing supply of the service by the relevant Carrier, in the event of a fault occurring in the Fixed Network Services the Company will use reasonable endeavours to rectify the fault as soon as practicable.
5.2.4 Except where stated on an Order Form, the broadband element (if any) of any Fixed Network Services does not include the provision of any modems or other equipment that the Company may supply to the Customer under a separate contract.
5.2.5 The Customer acknowledges that the speed of any broadband element (if any) of the Fixed Network Services depends on a number of factors including, but not limited to, distance from the exchange, local availability and line test. The Company gives no warranty or guarantee that the Customer's line(s) will produce top speeds of up to the maximum speed advertised, (as the final speed is governed by factors that are beyond the Company's reasonable control).
5.2.6 The Customer warrants, represents and undertakes that it is the owner of, or that it is authorised by the owner of, (and has the right to use) any trade mark or name that the Customer wishes to use as or in its registered domain name (or any of them) (“Domain Names”) and/or as part of the Customer's uniform resource locator (“URL”).
5.2.7 If the Company undertakes Domain Names and/or URL registration on behalf of the Customer, the Customer will reimburse the Company for any registration fees paid by the Company to the relevant internet registration authorities. The Company does not guarantee that any Domain Names or URL requested by the Customer will be available.
5.2.8 The Company may require the Customer to select replacement Domain Names or URL and may either refuse to provide or may suspend the Services if the Company reasonably believes that the Domain Names or URL is, or is likely to be, offensive, abusive, defamatory or obscene or infringe the rights of a third party.
5.3 SUPPLY OF TELEPHONE NUMBERS
5.3.1 The Customer hereby acknowledges and accepts that OFCOM has the power to withdraw an allocation of telephone numbers and the Carrier may withdraw an allocation of telephone numbers to the Company and that therefore any new telephone numbers provided to the Customer under the Contract, prior to their connection, cannot be guaranteed as available and therefore the Company shall not be liable for any costs incurred by the Customer in the use of any such telephone number (including, without limitation, in the advertising of such telephone number) which is withdrawn by the OFCOM and/ or the relevant Carrier prior to connection (save where and to the extent that such withdrawal is the fault of the Company).
5.3.2 Without prejudice to any rights the Customer may have to port a number allocated to it, the Customer acknowledges it does not own or have any right to sell any number provided to it by the Company. Where the Customer has a number from a national numbering plan, the charges for porting such number shall be as set out in the Tariff.
5.4. USE OF THE FIXED NETWORK SERVICES
5.4.1 The Customer shall be responsible for the safe custody and safe use by it of the Fixed Network Services and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing the Customer agrees and undertakes:
(a) to use the Fixed Network Services in accordance with such additional Conditions as may be notified to it in accordance with condition 17 from time to time;
(b) not to cause any attachments, other than those that meet the appropriate essential requirements of regulation 4 of the Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Regulations 2000 (as from time to time amended) and any other requirements under the General Conditions and all other Relevant Laws, to be connected to the Fixed Network Services and the Company shall not be under any obligation to connect or keep connected any Customer apparatus if it does not so conform or if in the reasonable opinion of the Company it is liable to cause death, personal injury or damage or to impair the quality of the Fixed Network Service;
(c) not to contravene the General Conditions or any other relevant regulations or licences granted thereunder and otherwise not to contravene, and not by any act or omission, cause the Company to contravene, any Relevant Laws or General Conditions;
(d) not to use the Fixed Network Service as a means of communication for a purpose other than that for which the Fixed Network Service is provided and as may be set out in any relevant literature supplied by the Company from time to time;
(e) not to use the Fixed Network Service to make, provide, communicate, deliver, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material or information which is intended to be a hoax call to emergency services or is of a defamatory, offensive, abusive, indecent, obscene or menacing character, or which does or is intended to cause annoyance, nuisance inconvenience or worry to any person or which in the Company's opinion brings the Company's name into disrepute or which in any way causes damage to or disruption to the Fixed Network Services;
(f) not to use dialers or any system or apparatus that would unnaturally inflate the level of outbound traffic beyond that considered by Deployable Solutions Limited to be normal usage. The Customer accepts that if in Deployable Solutions Limited sole opinion the Customer’s use of the system is affecting the performance of the network, other users, or the commercial viability of Deployable Solutions Limited unlimited model, we reserve the right to limit or suspend a user’s access to the system;
(g) to maintain its telecommunications apparatus at all times during the period of the Contract in good working order and in conformity with any relevant regulatory standards or approvals and Relevant Laws for the item as from time to time applicable;
(h) to provide the Company with all such information as it reasonably requests relating to the Customer's telecommunications apparatus;
(i) to implement adequate control and security over the use of the Fixed Network Services provided to the Customer including but not limited to the prevention of viruses, worms, Trojan horses and/ or any calls generated by rogue dialers or hackers;
(j) not to use the Fixed Network Services in a way that breaches any Relevant Laws (including without limitation the Code or any guidelines, regulations or instructions of PhonepayPlus) or any licence applicable to the Customer or that is in any way unlawful or fraudulent; and
(k) not to send or procure the sending of any unsolicited advertising or promotional material.
5.4.2 Any equipment installed or provided by or on behalf of the Company for the purposes of providing the Fixed Network Service (excluding for
the avoidance of doubt any Equipment purchased under a Contract by the Customer for which condition 4 applies) shall at all times remain the property of the Company and shall be returned to the Company forthwith upon request. Condition 4.3 shall apply to such equipment and for the purposes of this condition
5.4.2 only such equipment shall be deemed Equipment under those conditions. The Customer shall be liable to the Company for all losses, costs and expenses incurred by the Company for the recovery, replacement or repair of such equipment (save to the extent that the same is caused by the fault of the Company).
5.4.3 Unless stated otherwise on the Order Form, if the Customer takes a line rental from the Company, the Customer is also committed to using the Company for calls over that line. Should the Customer (during the applicable Minimum Term) use an alternative carrier for calls once the Contract for the provision of the telephone line has commenced, or prevent the Company from carrying calls in any monthly period so that the call charges are significantly reduced in comparison to the Customer's previous average invoicing profile, the Customer agrees that the Company may charge the Customer the differential between the average monthly spend on calls prior to such commencement or prevention and the subsequent monthly spend on calls (if any).
5.4.5 The Company does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any of the information, sound, video, software and/or any other materials (in whatever form) which may be accessible by the Customer from any other person once it has the Fixed Network Services (the “Content”) or any further information or results which may be derived from it. The Customer acknowledges that, the Content is outside the control of the Company and the Customer will not rely on any Content in making any business or other decision and that the Customer uses of the Content is at its sole risk.
5.4.6 The Customer acknowledges that the Content may be protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights, as applicable. The Customer will not and will not permit anyone else to copy, store, modify, distribute externally, broadcast or publish any part of the Content, and the Content may only be used for the Customer's own purposes.
5.4.7 The Customer is entirely responsible for evaluating any goods or services offered by third parties via the Services or on the internet. The Company will not be a party to or in any way be held responsible to the Customer for any transaction between the Customer and third parties.
5.4.8 The Customer warrants, represents and undertakes that any information the Customer makes available on their website, both the Customer's (“Customer Information”) or that of a third party (“Third Party Content”) is and will remain wholly accurate and will not include any information or material, any part of which, or the accessing of which or use of which, would be a criminal offence or is otherwise unlawful.
5.4.9 The Customer also warrants, represents and undertakes that it will comply with all consumer and other legislation, instructions or guidelines issued by regulatory authorities and relevant licences which relate to the provision of the information on the Customer's website including those notified by the Company to the Customer.