Riverland Internet ADSL plans

DSL Terms of Service
1. Application

These terms apply to all DSL services we provide, e.g. ADSL and SDSL, and form part of our Agreement with you.
2. Service location and service conditions
2.1. The availability and continuation of DSL services are subject to technical and other conditions.
2.2. The ‘service location’ is the place to which a DSL service is supplied, or is to be supplied.
2.3. ‘Service conditions’ means any and all of:
  2.3.1 technical conditions for supply of a DSL service;
  2.3.2. where we consider that the consent of any third party is required -- obtaining that consent.
2.4. Your service conditions include:
  2.4.1. supplying a telephone line on the PSTN connected and operating to the service location;
  2.4.2. providing a suitable place and conditions for the service if applicable;
  2.4.3. ensuring that your PSTN telephone line terminates in a standard wall socket, which we may specify;
  2.4.4. notifying us if any additional services are required before the service can be enabled.
2.5. Certain products and services are incompatible with DSL service. Your service conditions also include overcoming any incompatibility issues.
2.6. The use of other products on the same telephone line as a DSL service may degrade the quality of your telephone service. Your service conditions also include fitting any necessary filters or other equipment to the telephone line.
2.7. You must comply with all service conditions at your own cost, and we are not responsible for any consequences of you failing to do so.
3. Supply of DSL service
3.1. We will provide you with DSL service if you and the service location satisfy:
   3.1.1. all service conditions; and
   3.1.2. our application and other requirements.
3.2. We may give you an indicative date for service commencement, but we are not bound by it.
3.3. If you transfer from another provider’s DSL service to our service, there may be a period of service interruption.
3.4. We are not obligated to provide a DSL service to you where our wholesale supplier advises us that a service is not available at a particular location, even though we may have advised you that it was.
3.5. Where we are unable to supply a DSL service because the service is not available for provisioning at a particular location, either of us may terminate the customer contract for that service, immediately upon written notice to the other.
4. Relocating a DSL service
4.1. This clause applies if you ask us in writing to relocate a DSL service to a new service location.
4.2. You and the new service location must satisfy all service conditions.
4.3. We may relocate the service and charge you any relocation charges that are specified in our price list, without further confirmation from you.
4.4. Alternatively, we may notify you of different or additional relocation charges and request your confirmation that you wish to proceed. If you confirm, we may relocate the service and charge you as notified.
4.5. We may notify you of different or additional relocation charges by email. You are bound by any confirmation we receive from the same email address.
4.6. Our charges may include charges payable to a wholesaler for the service relocation.
5. Your network
Unless we agree otherwise in writing, we will not configure your network or workstations.
6. Security
6.1. You must protect your computer or network from:
   6.1.1. security threats; and
   6.1.2. viruses, trojans, worms and other malware.
6.2. You must ensure your service is not used for any unauthorised or unlawful access or use of another customer’s service.
7. Service limitations
7.1. You acknowledge that:
   7.1.1. service may not be continuous;
   7.1.2. there will be variations in response times and capacity of service;
   7.1.3. nominal upload and download speeds are theoretical maxima only, and may not be achievable in practice. Limitations due to constraints in your particular circumstances at your service location are not a defect in service.
7.2. We may:
   7.2.1. limit the performance of the service from time to time;
   7.2.2. cease or interrupt the service to troubleshoot, maintain or upgrade it;
   7.2.3. impose a speed limit on the service when you reach a download limit, maximum usage allowance, or at different times of the day;
   7.2.4. alter the IPaddress of your service, unless your customer contract says otherwise.
7.3. Where we impose a speed limit, the speed for both uploads and downloads will be limited to the upload speed (unless specified otherwise in the applicable service terms) of your service.
7.4. The DSL service may only be used at the service location you specify in the application for the service, unless we have relocated it under clause 4.
7.5. You must not:
7.5.1. use the service as a back channel for satellite.
8. Customer Promises and Warranties
8.1. You must ensure that all information retrieved, stored and transmitted through the service is lawful, complies with our AUP and is not detrimental to our network.
8.2. You warrant that only people under your control will use the service.
9. Acknowledgments
You acknowledge that:
9.1. the actual transmission rate on DSL services which can be achieved is likely to be less than the maximum transmission capability quoted; and
9.2. factors that may effect the actual transmission rate include network configuration, dimensioning, line quality, customer premises interference, distance from exchange, method of data transmission, exchange type, hardware and software configuration.
10. Restrictions
10.1 If unless stated - if you use a DSL service and (a) the data downloaded and uploaded, in total, exceeds a maximum of 30GB in a month; and (b) the data downloaded is less than 50% of the total in that month – then we may suspend, limit or cancel this service.
10.2. DSL services with a download speed of up to 8MBit and upstream speed of 384kit may be speed shaped. Our wholesaler may, where the DSLAM to which such service has a bottleneck bandwidth uplink, speed shape such a service to a lower speed.
10.3. Where our wholesaler exercises its rights in clause 10.1 and 10.2, then we may also suspend, limit or cancel the service – but where we do we will provide you with written notice where reasonably possible.

11.Late Payment Fee
If any amount remains unpaid after the Due Date you will be liable to pay a late  payment fee as set out in the Schedule of Fees and Charges which shall be added to your next invoice.
11.1 Dishonoured Cheques
If an invoice is paid by cheque and that cheque is dishonoured, a dishonoured cheque fee as set out in the Schedule of Fees and Charges will be added to your next invoice.
12 Debt Recovery Services
We may use debt recovery services to recover any outstanding Fees (which will include any administrative fees and you may be liable for any charges and collection costs such as legal costs).
13. Early Termination Fee
If your Application records that you have agreed to receive a Service from us for a Fixed Term then:
(a) the total amount payable for the whole of the Fixed Term (comprising any Equipment Fees, monthly service fees or other periodic fees as stated) is a debt owing to us as at the time we accepted your Application for that Service; and
(b) if the Service is cancelled before the expiry of the Fixed Term, you will be liable to pay the balance of the stated fees which are payable for the unexpired portion of the Fixed Term, in the form of an early termination fee (calculated in accordance with the Schedule of Fees and Charges).

14.Suspension for Non-Payment
We reserve the right to;
(a) physically disconnect your service if Fees or any other amount payable by you remains unpaid 28 days after the Due Date (unless we have received written notice from you of a legitimate dispute of those Fees or other amount prior to the Due Date); and
(b) suspend your service if you fail to pay the outstanding amount in full within 7 days after we give you a notice demanding payment of the Fees which for the avoidance of doubt will include any administrative fees.