Anglian Communication Terms & Conditions
Version 2.8/2018
“Act” means the Telecommunications Act 1984 and amendments to the
Act that may be made from time to time. “Agreement” means this
agreement between the Customer and Anglian Communication entered into on the date set
out overleaf and/or otherwise on an order form and/or service schedule
(“Order Form”) . “AO” means British Telecommunications plc.
“AP” means an alternative provider of services (not being Anglian Communication) who has
provided before or will provide (in the future) by your express written
instruction services in place of (in whole or in part) the Services.
“Customer”, means the person, firm or corporation specified overleaf
and/or otherwise in the Letter. “Service” means the provision of all or any
of voice, data, internet, line rental and/or other network services to the
exchange lines with the Calling Line Identities (“CLIs”) indicated overleaf
or otherwise provided to Anglian Communication by the Customer and confirmed in the
Welcome Letter as the same may be amended by agreement between
Anglian Communication and the Customer from time to time and confirmed in Welcome
Letter(s) by Anglian Communication to the Customer. “CPS” means Carrier Pre-selection as a
method of providing access to the Service over telephone lines provided
by the AO. “LEL” means the local exchange line from the Customer’s
premises, which Anglian Communication takes over and operates instead of the AO.
“Minimum Contract Term” means the initial minimum term stated overleaf
and/or in the Welcome Letter for the provision of Services and payment
in respect thereof. Minimum Contract Value means the minimum spend
which the Customer has agreed to spend with Anglian Communication for each month
commencing from the Effective Date and for the duration of Minimum
Contract Term.
1. The Service
Anglian Communication shall provide to the Customer the Service as requested and
Anglian Communication shall exercise appropriate and reasonable care in the provision,
operation and maintenance of the Service. Other than through
(or in addition to) the LEL, access to the Service shall be by, at Anglian Communication’s sole
option, autodialler or programming of Customer Premise Equipment
(“CPE”), or by Anglian Communication authorising with the AO the implementation of CPS
and the Customer herein irrevocably authorises Anglian Communication to sign on behalf of
the Customer all and any authorisations with a third party
telecommunications operator for the purposes of CPS access. If Anglian Communication
separately agrees in writing, it shall also enable suitable by-pass to its
Service by the Customer with the dialling or input of a simple by-pass
code in front of the target-dialled number.
2. Duration
This Agreement shall come into full force and effect from the earliest date
of either written acceptance by Anglian Communication, or when Anglian Communication commence the
provision of the Service or the LEL or otherwise when Anglian Communication advise the
Customer of Service or LEL provision (“Effective Date”) and shall continue
from the Effective Date for the agreed Minimum Contract Term as stated
overleaf and/or as confirmed in the Welcome Letter and the Customer
shall use the Services set out in the Order Form or Welcome Letter (as
applicable) for the Minimum Contract Term and shall (if applicable)
achieve the Minimum Contract Value for the duration of the Minimum
Contract Term. This Agreement shall be capable of termination if prior to
the end of the Minimum Contract Term either party shall have given to
the other not less than 30 days prior written notice of termination, such
notice to expire at the end of the Minimum Contract Term failing which
this Agreement shall automatically continue for subsequent periods of
equal to the Minimum Contract Term up to a maximum of 12 months for
each renewal period (“Renewal Term”). None of the foregoing shall
prejudice either party’s rights to terminate this Agreement during the
Minimum Contract Term or the Renewal Term if such termination is being
exercised in accordance with the provisions of Clause 8 (below).
3. Use of the Services and LEL
(a) The Customer shall be responsible for the safe custody and safe use
of the Services and the LEL and any related equipment after installation
of the Service and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing,
the Customer agrees and undertakes: b. to use the Service and LEL in accordance with such conditions as may be
notified to it in writing by Anglian Communication from time to time; and
(ii) not cause any attachments other than those approved for connection
under the Act to be connected to the Service and LEL; and
(iii) not to contravene the Act or any other relevant regulations or licences;
and
(iv) not to use the Service and/or LEL as a means of communication for a
purpose other than for which the Service and LEL is provided and as may
be set out from time to time in Anglian Communication’s Service literature, a copy of which is
available upon request by the Customer. (where expressly agreed in
writing with the Customer, Anglian Communication will provide the Customer with the
maximum notice practicable should there be any change to Anglian Communication’s Service
literature and Anglian Communication agrees not to make any such change as would
materially affect the parties’ obligations); and
(v) not to use the Service and LEL for the transmission of any material which
is intended to be a hoax call to emergency services and is of a
defamatory, offensive, abusive, obscene or menacing character; and
(vi) not to use the Service and LEL in a manner which constitutes a violation
or infringement of the rights of any other party; and
(vii) to maintain its telecommunications apparatus at all times during the
period of this Agreement in good working order and in conformation with
the relevant standard or approval for the time being designated under
section 22 of the Act; and
(viii)to provide Anglian Communication with all such information as it reasonably requests
relating to the Customer’s telecommunications apparatus; and
(b) The Customer shall indemnify Anglian Communication against all liabilities, claims,
damages, losses and expenses (including legal expenses) on a full
indemnity basis, arising directly or indirectly from any breach of the
undertakings contained in Clause 3(a) above.
4. Access to Premises and Provision of Information
(a) To enable Anglian Communication to exercise it’s obligations under this Agreement:
(i) the Customer shall procure permission for Anglian Communication and any other person(s)
authorised by Anglian Communication to have reasonable access to its premises and the
Service’s connection points and shall provide such reasonable assistance
as Anglian Communication requests including authority for Anglian Communication to deal with the Operator on
the Customer’s behalf; and
(ii) Anglian Communication will normally carry out work by appointment and during Normal
Working Hours, but may request the Customer to provide access at all
other times, but such request shall not oblige the Customer to provide
such access; and
(iii) at the Customer’s request, Anglian Communication may agree in writing to work outside Normal
Working Hours and the Customer shall pay Anglian Communication’s reasonable charges for
complying with such a request.
(b) The Customer shall herein give Anglian Communication or it’s authorised agents full authority
to act on the Customer’s behalf (and shall confirm in writing or otherwise
with any third party at Anglian Communication’s request) to represent the Customer with any
third party service provider and Operator in respect of agreeing on the
Customer’s behalf access to the Service through CPS and/or LEL (or any
other access device), including obtaining from any such Operator the
Customer’s consent to release of any information concerning the services
taken by the Customer from such Operator.
©If the Customer requests maintenance or repair work of which is found to
be unnecessary the Customer may be charged for the work and the costs
incurred (including where the Customer has damaged or otherwise damage
has been caused to the Equipment).
5. Suspension of Service
(a) Anglian Communication may at its sole discretion upon giving the Customer 7 days notice
elect to suspend forthwith provision of the Service and LEL until further
notice (without compensation and without prejudice to Anglian Communication’s right to
terminate this Agreement at a later date) upon notifying the Customer either
orally (confirming such notification in writing) or in writing in the event that;
9. the Customer is in breach of a material term of this Agreement including
for the purposes of this Agreement, its failure to pay monies due to Anglian Communication
or any third party to which payment of any monies is otherwise due to
Anglian Communication (where payment of such monies has been assigned by Anglian Communication or
otherwise Anglian Communication has appointed such third party to act as its agent in
respect of the collection thereof); or
(ii) Anglian Communication is obliged to comply with an order, instruction or request of the
Government, an emergency services organisation or other competent
administrative authorities.
(b) The Customer shall reimburse Anglian Communication for all reasonable costs and expenses
incurred by the implementation of such suspension and/or the
recommencement of the provision of the Service and LEL as appropriate, but
only where the suspension was implemented as a consequence of a breach,
fault or omission on the part of the Customer. Any suspension of this
Agreement shall not stop the Customer from paying Anglian Communication the Minimum
Contract Value for the period of suspension.
6. Liability
(a) Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude, limit or restrict Anglian Communication’s liability for
the death or personal injury resulting from the negligence of Anglian Communication or of its
employees whilst acting in the course of their employment.
(b) In the event that the Service and/or LEL fails to operate and the
Customer diverts traffic to another carrier, Anglian Communication will not be responsible for
that carrier’s charges.
© Without prejudice to the provisions of Clauses 2 (in respect of the
Customer’s liability) and 6(a) above, neither party shall be liable to the other,
in contract, tort or otherwise (including negligence) for any loss of business,
contracts, anticipated savings or profits or for any other indirect or
consequential loss whatsoever or howsoever arising.
(d) Without prejudice to the provisions of Clause 6(a), Anglian Communication’s entire liability in
contract, tort or otherwise arising out of or in connection with the
performance of its obligations under this Agreement shall be limited to
£10,000 for any one incident or £25,000 for any series of incidents in any
twelve-month period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Anglian Communication’s total liability to
the Customer shall, in respect of claims relating to any failure of the Services
connected to any AO and/or AP be no more than Anglian Communication receives from such AO
and/or AP as a consequence of such failure.
(e) Neither party shall be liable to the other for any loss or damage which
may be suffered by the other party due to any cause beyond the first party’s
reasonable control including without limitation any act of God, inclement
weather, failure or shortage of power supplies, flood, drought, lightening or
fire, third party supplier, Operator, strike, lock-out, trade dispute or labour
disturbance, any act or omission of Government, highways authorities, or
other competent authorities.
7. Charges and Payment
The Customer shall be invoiced monthly by Anglian Communication or any third party (Go Cardless) who has
been assigned the right to receive such monies by Anglian Communication, or otherwise acts as
an agent of Anglian Communication in the collection of such monies and agrees to pay all
charges within 14 days of the date of the relevant invoice, unless otherwise
agreed in writing by Anglian Communication. The charges shall be such charges as are set out
in the relevant Schedule or service literature as may be varied by Anglian Communication from
time to time (including all ancillary costs). The Customer shall also pay any
aborted visit fees in respect of any new installations and/or otherwise the
costs of any cancelled installation and/or LEL if the same is cancelled prior to
the expiry of the any Minimum Contract Term. The Customer also expressly
agrees and understands that they are responsible for any costs associated
with the termination of any services that the Customer has by any agreement
entered into between the Customer and an AO and/or AP, which costs and
charges are not the responsibility of Anglian Communication by Anglian Communication having agreed to provide
any Services to the Customer in place of or in addition to such AO and/or AP.
The Customer shall be invoiced monthly in arrears, unless otherwise agreed
herein, monthly in advance or both, dependant on the nature of the Service
and LEL agreed with Anglian Communication. Time of payment to Anglian Communication (or any third party as
aforesaid) shall be of the essence.
The Customer shall have no right to withhold, offset or deduct any payment
whatsoever that is invoiced and due to Anglian Communication, or any third party (as aforesaid)
and Anglian Communication reserves the right to charge daily interest on all amounts
outstanding 14 days after the date of invoice until payment in full is received,
at a rate equal to 4 percent per annum above Barclays Bank plc Base Lending
Rate as current from time to time, whether before or after judgement.
Interest shall continue to accrue notwithstanding termination or suspension
of this Agreement. Without prejudice to the provisions contained elsewhere
in this Agreement, any dispute in respect of an invoice must be made within
5 business days of the date of the relevant invoice failing which no dispute
shall be considered by Anglian Communication and in any event such a dispute shall be made in
good faith by the Customer.
In the event that this Agreement is terminated for whatever reason and all
sums are not paid to Anglian Communication (or any third party as aforesaid), in accordance
with the terms hereof, Anglian Communication herein reserves the right to charge the Customer
for its administration and legal charges up to and prior to commencing any
legal proceedings at the rate of £100 per hour of time spent chasing the
overdue amounts. All sums referred to in this Agreement are exclusive of
Value Added Tax and any taxes of a similar nature which may from time to
time be introduced.
Out of bundle call charges are effected by cost of supply, current costs are
available here. Where there is a change to our call
charges customers will be informed prior to the new call rates being applied.
8. Termination
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary expressed or implied elsewhere
in this Agreement, the relevant party (as defined below) and without
prejudice to its other rights may terminate this Agreement forthwith in the
event that:
9. Anglian Communication only may terminate this Agreement if a liquidator (other than that
for the purpose of amalgamation or reconstruction), trustee in
bankruptcy, administrator, receiver or receiver and manager (whether
voluntary or not) is appointed in respect of the whole or part of the
assets and/or undertaking of the Customer or the Customer enters into
an arrangement or composition with its creditors, or if the Customer
becomes unable to pay its debts within the meaning of s123 of the
Insolvency Act 1986, or other circumstances arise which entitle a court
or creditor to appoint a receiver or administrator or to make a
winding up order; or
(ii) Anglian Communication only may terminate this Agreement if the Customer fails to
make any payment when due; or
(iii) Either party may terminate this Agreement if the other party is
in breach of a material term of this Agreement and, where
such term is capable of remedy, fails to remedy it (having been
given written notice of that breach) within seven days of the
date of such notice. In the event that Anglian Communication fails to remedy
such breach as aforesaid, the Customer may only terminate
the Agreement or any or all of the Services having first notified
Anglian Communication in writing of it’s intention to terminate such Services.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary expressed or implied in
this Agreement Anglian Communication (without prejudice to their other rights), may
terminate this Agreement forthwith in the event that any licence
under which the Customer has any right to run its telecommunication
system and connect it to the Service and LEL is revoked, amended or
otherwise ceases to be valid or otherwise any payment due hereunder
to Anglian Communication (or any third party as aforesaid) is due and owing.
© As a consequence of termination, where Anglian Communication has implemented
Service with the installation/connection of external routing hardware,
this hardware must be returned to an address nominated by Anglian Communication on
termination of its Service whether this termination be instigated by
the Customer, Anglian Communication or other extraneous circumstance. Where
hardware requires de-installation by an engineer to enable its
recovery this de-installation shall be arranged by Anglian Communication at no charge to
the Customer. Anglian Communication however retains the right to charge the Customer
for any routing hardware misplaced, damaged through negligence or
uncollectable for any reason at a cost equal to its purchase price by
Anglian Communication.
(d) Where Anglian Communication has made arrangement via it’s engineers for the deinstallation of external routing hardware and site attendance has been
agreed in advance by the Customer with engineers for a specific day,
Anglian Communication reserves the right to charge for any abortive visit cost incurred, in
the event of failure of the engineer to perform the de-installation due
to the Customer.
(e) For termination as detailed in 8(d) but where Anglian Communication has
implemented Service with the programming of CPE Anglian Communication shall deprovision with it’s supplier(s) any CLI(s) associated with it’s Service to
cause cessation. It will be the responsibility of the Customer to
arrange for the replacement of any network access code programmed
into the equipment to allow subsequent usage of any other AP or in
fact removal of such network access code.
(f) Where termination of the Anglian Communication Service requires cancellation of the
CPS facility, Anglian Communication shall undertake this process with the AO and the
appropriate CPS Operator (“CPSO”) on behalf of the Customer, unless
requested otherwise by the Customer (including where the Customer
has advised Anglian Communication in writing that instruction to remove the Services (or
any part of them) has been given directly to the AO by the Customer.
Anglian Communication will cease with the CPSO any active CLIs from which calls are
routing using CPS. In such circumstances Anglian Communication will communicate to the
Customer the relevant by-pass code to enable outgoing calls to be
made using the AO network during the time required by the AO to
process the order submission for CPS cancellation. Where Service is
provided with LEL, Anglian Communication will co-ordinate with the AO the cessation of
Anglian Communication being the provider of the LEL, but shall not be liable for any delay
or lack of access to communications as a consequence of the same.
(g) The Customer shall be liable to pay the Minimum Contract Value
for the remainder of the Minimum Contract Term forthwith upon
termination of this Agreement. The Minimum Contract Value shall be
for all Services the sums forecast by Anglian Communication for the remainder of the
Minimum Contract Term (having regard to the previous average billing
from Anglian Communication for such Services prior to termination) less twenty percent
for early receipt by Anglian Communication of such sums. All of the foregoing sums shall
(and where there is a conflict between this clause 8(g) and clause 7,
this clause 8(g) shall prevail) be invoiced in one final single sum (for
the Minimum Contract Value), which sum will be due in full
immediately upon Anglian Communication’s invoicing the Customer in respect of the
same. For the avoidance of doubt in the event that the Customer fails
to use the Services as anticipated by this Agreement, and
notwithstanding Anglian Communication’s right to regard such failure as a repudiatory
breach of this Agreement, Anglian Communication reserves the right to charge the
Customer the Minimum Contract Value (if one is stated) or in the
absence of the foregoing the monthly average of the spend for the
Services from the Effective Date to the diminution in use of the
Services for the remainder of the Minimum Contract Term (“Average
Spend Charge”). Without prejudice to Anglian Communication’s right to regard any
termination or material diminution in use of the Services by the
Customer as a material breach [which the parties agree would be a
material breach of this Agreement save where this Agreement or the
Services are terminated by the Customer pursuant to Anglian Communication’s breach
under clause 8(a)(iii)], Anglian Communication also reserves the right (but shall not be
obliged) to re-instate Services where an AP is appointed in
circumstances where Anglian Communication has not received prior written consent from
the Customer directly to Anglian Communication to such transfer to an AP.
(h) Where this Agreement is terminated, Anglian Communication shall issue an invoice in
respect of all sums due prior to and up to the date of termination
(including the Minimum Contract Value or the Average Spend Charge,
as applicable), including all sums referred to in this Agreement which
may be due as a consequence of such termination and all sums
outstanding (whether newly invoiced or not) shall be immediately due
and payable by the Customer (save for Clause 8 (f) above, to Anglian Communication or
any third party as aforesaid).
9. General
Anglian Communication may, but the Customer shall not (without the prior written
consent of Anglian Communication), assign or delegate or otherwise deal with all or any
of its rights and obligations under the Agreement.
This Agreement represents the entire understanding between the
parties in relation to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all
other agreements and representations made by either party, whether
oral or written and this Agreement may only be modified if such
modification is in writing and signed by a duly authorised
representative of each party thereto.
Failure by either party to exercise or enforce any right conferred by
this Agreement shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any such right
nor operate so as to bar the exercise or enforcement thereof or of any
other right on any later occasion. By signing the form overleaf, or
otherwise taking the Service, the Customer thereby agrees to the total
exclusion of all its terms and conditions of business from this
Agreement.
Any notice, invoice or other document which may be given by Anglian Communication
under this Agreement shall be deemed to have been duly given if left
at or sent by post to an address to which notices, invoices or other
documents may have been sent, or the Customer’s usual or last
known place of abode or business, or if the Customer is a limited
company, its registered office.
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed and interpreted
in accordance with English Law and the parties hereby submit to the
exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. Those provisions of a
continuing nature under this Agreement (including Clauses 6 and 7
above), shall continue to apply notwithstanding the termination or
expiry of this Agreement for any reason whatsoever.