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ADSL2+
Broadband/Telephone
Services Terms And Conditions
1. General
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1.1 |
Throughout any
Agreement, “TXC” shall mean TX
Commnications Pty
Ltd (ABN 89 079 028 247)
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1.2 |
Once an application
has been processed and accepted by TXC, TXC will supply and the Customer agrees
to acquire the Service(s) (“Service(s)”)
specified in the Schedule(s), on these terms
and conditions. To the extent of any
inconsistency between these terms and
conditions, and any Service(s) Schedule(s),
these terms and conditions will prevail. By
accepting the supply of Service(s), the
Customer accepts these terms and conditions.
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1.3 |
The Customer
acknowledges that the terms and conditions
of this Agreement, including any fees, rates
and charges, may be varied from time to time
by notification, and without notification if
the variation arises because of a change in
law or the regulatory environment. TXC
notify changes via the web site located at
http://www.txc.net.au/adsl2+_terms.htm
and do not send individual customers
notification via email or via post.
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1.4
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The Customer agrees
to provide relevant details and sign any
necessary forms or other documents relevant
to a(the) Service(s) it has selected,
including any documents necessary to effect
a transfer of Service(s) to TXC, and the
Customer authorises TXC to complete any
necessary forms on its behalf.
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1.5 |
TXC shall use
reasonable endeavours to provide the Service(s), but it shall not be liable if it
is prevented, hindered or delayed from
providing the Service(s) for any reason
whatsoever.
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1.6
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While TXC will
endeavour to provide Service(s) of a
reasonable quality, TXC does not warrant
the quality, speed, reliability or any other
aspect of the Service(s) nor does TXC
make any claim as to the quality, speed,
reliability or any other aspect of
Service(s) provided by any third party.
TXC does not provide a maintenance
Service(s) for the Broadband and Telephone
network delivery system directly and makes
no commitments on the time it may take to
correct faults that may develop in the line
used to connect to TXC's ADSL and
Telephone services. TXC will charge the
customer $120.00 if the customer requests a
site visit by a Telstra/Optus engineer where
no fault is found with the ADSL line or
Telephone service provided by Telstra or
Optus.
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1.7 |
Provision of the ADSL
and Telephone Service(s) is conditional on
the Customer nominating, and keeping
operational, for the duration of the
service, a PSTN line/number, which is
capable of being conditioned for the
purposes of carrying ADSL traffic across the
Optus Telephone and DSLAM network. If, for
whatever reason, the selected line is
cancelled/terminated then the ADSL and
telephone services are deemed to have also
been cancelled/terminated and the customer
has incurred any financial penalties
relating to early termination.
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1.8 |
The Customer agrees
that it will not resell or re-supply any of
the Service(s) unless it has prior written
approval from an authorised TXC
representative. |
2. Charges and Billing
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2.1 |
The
Customer must pay to TXC the charges for
the Service(s) plus any applicable GST. The
charges for the Service(s) are:
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(a) |
the fees, rates and
charges that are set out in the relevant
Service(s) Schedule(s) (Broadband and
Telephone Application and other applicable
documents) and as otherwise notified to the
Customer from time to time; or |
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(b) |
if no charges are set
out in the relevant Service(s) Schedule, TXC's standard corporate fees, rates and
charges applicable at the time of supply of
the relevant Service(s). |
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(c) |
the monthly charges
are payable for each month of the initial
service period and then month by month until
the service is cancelled. |
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(d) |
if the customer
cancels the service within the initial
service period an early cancellation penalty
of $100.00 will be charged. |
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(e) |
if the customer moves
addresses or changes telephone number,
either within or after the initial service
period, a new initial service period of
twelve months will commence from the date
the ADSL/Telephone service is activated on
the new line/number.
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2.2 |
The
Customer agrees that, where security is
required, it will provide security to TXC
within the requested time and if it fails to
do so the Service(s) may be immediately
suspended and/or disconnected. If a
Service(s) is disconnected, a reconnection
fee may apply.
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2.3 |
Electronic copy invoices for Access and
Installation Service(s) will generally be
issued monthly on the first working day of
each month. However TXC will debit the
customer’s account/credit card on the
following bases: |
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(a) |
Installation charge
debited on advice from Provider of a planned
activation date. |
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(b) |
Balance of first
month’s access debited on advice from
Provider that the service has been
activated. The pro rata charge for the first
month will be from Provider's confirmed
activation date. |
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(c) |
Subsequent month’s
ADSL2 accesses are currently debited one
month in advance on, or around, the 1st
working day of each month for that month. |
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(d) |
Telephone call
charges will be billed in arrears on or
around 1st of each month. |
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(e) |
Any ADSL excess usage
charges are debited on, or around, the 1st
of month following the month in which the
excess was incurred
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2.4 |
The
Customer must pay any bill (including any
applicable GST) by its due date without any
deductions or set-off. The Customer agrees
that if it fails to pay its bill by the due
date then the Service(s) may be immediately
suspended and/or disconnected
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2.5 |
The
Customer agrees that TXC’s records are
prima face evidence of the Customer’s use of
the Service(s) and the charges payable.
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2.6 |
The
Customer agrees to receive or view its bills
electronically and it acknowledges that the
electronic delivery of its bills constitutes
notification of the charges contained in
those bills and the due date payable and
that TXC will not issue a paper copy of
those bills.
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2.7 |
The
Customer may elect to have its bills paid by
way of a direct debit from an account held
by the Customer at an approved financial
institution or direct debit from a valid
credit card. Changes to direct debit
payments may take up to 30 days to be
effected. TXC may charge the Customer a
sum of $25.00 if the credit card or bank
account nominated by the Customer refuses
the charge when applied for by TXC.
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2.8 |
In the
event the Customer's nominated credit card
or bank account defaults on any debit then
TXC may suspend the service until such
time as all outstanding charges are paid by
the Customer. In the event that the
Customer's ADSL service is suspended TXC
will charge a further $10.00 to reconnect
the service.Each failed attempt (dishonour)
to pay incurs a $10 failed payment fee.
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2.09 |
TXC
bills ADSL2 services (including the
telephone line rental) one month in advance.
In the event that a user transfers away or
cancels their TXC service no rebate is
given for the unused days. |
3. Liability
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3.1 |
The Customer agrees
that it will not use the Service(s) for any
unlawful or improper purpose and will
indemnify TXC for any claim, cost, loss
or damage arising out of its use of the
Service(s). Except as required by law, TXC will not be liable to the Customer or
to any person claiming through the Customer,
for any costs, loss, liability, damages, or
consequential, indirect or economic loss
whatsoever arising out of the acts,
omissions or negligence of TXC.
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3.2 |
If TXC is not able
to so exclude liability, the Customer agrees
that TXC’s total liability to the
Customer is limited, at TXC’s option, to
supplying the relevant Service(s) again or
paying the cost of doing so. |
4. Use And Disclosure of
Information
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4.1 |
The
Customer authorises TXC and its related
bodies corporate to use and exchange
Customer information before, during and
after the provision of any credit to the
Customer with any of their agents and any
credit reporting agency credit providers,
carriers, Customer’s business references in
accordance with the relevant State and
Federal acts for the following purposes:
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(a) |
considering or
applying TXC’s credit policy to the
Customer’s application; |
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(b) |
ongoing credit
management of Customer account(s) with TXC or any of its related bodies
corporate, including recovery of Customer
overdue payments; |
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(c) |
ongoing maintenance
of credit records about the Customer; |
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(d) |
to enable Service(s)
delivery to the Customer; and |
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(e) |
any other purposes
permitted under the Telecommunications Act
1984.
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4.2 |
The
customer agrees that information referred to
in Clause 4.1 includes: |
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(a) |
details and status of
any of the Customer accounts with TXC or
its related bodies corporate; |
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(b) |
identification of
Customer Service(s) numbers, whether
withheld or not, as required by any
applicable law; |
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(c) |
Customer credit
history, including whether the Customer has
made credit defaults, dishonoured debits or
credit infringements; |
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(d) |
Information about
Customer creditworthiness or capacity.
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4.3 |
“Customer” in this clause is defined to
include any director of the Customer
submitting this form. Any director
submitting this Agreement acknowledges that
TXC may do a credit check on him or her
in their personal capacity.
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4.4 |
Where the
Customer is in default of payment to TXC
the Customer agrees that TXC or its
agents may utilise any information collected
and recorded by TXC or its related bodies
corporate in relation to the Customer’s
account to assist TXC in the process of
debt recovery and may use debt collection
agencies for that purpose.
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4.5 |
Calls
made to or from TXC’s Customer Service
Centre(s) may be recorded for customer
service training, improvement programs and
verification purposes.
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4.6 |
TXC
may obtain an alternative provider to
provide Service(s) to the Customer. The
Customer agrees to the assignment of TXC’s rights under this Agreement to that
alternative provider; and irrevocably
authorises TXC to execute on the
Customer’s behalf any documents necessary to
give effect to that transfer.
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4.7 |
The
Customer should keep confidential all
passwords it nominates in connection with
the Service(s). The Customer acknowledges
that TXC will disclose any information in
connection with the Customer’s accounts to
any person who correctly quotes the
passwords.
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4.8 |
TXC
excludes all warranties concerning privacy
of customer information in the case of an
error made by an TXC Pty Ltd employee in
carrying out their operational duties or in
the case of deliberate fraud on the part of
an employee of TX Communications Pty Ltd |
5. Termination
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5.1
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After the
initial contract period ends TXC may
terminate, or vary, this Agreement at any
time by giving the Customer 21 day's written
notice of its intention to do so. Written
notice will be via an email to the email
address nominated by the customer on their
application or as subsequently varied by the
customer using the function provided for
this purpose in the TXC user Facilities.
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5.2 |
TXC
may terminate this Agreement immediately on
notice to the Customer, if the Customer; |
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(a) |
breaches any clause
of this Agreement and the breach is not
remedied within 7 days of the receipt of
written notice from TXC; or |
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(b) |
has a liquidator
appointed, has an order made for its winding
up, or has an administrator or a receiver
appointed over all or a portion of its
assets.
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5.3
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The
Customer may terminate this Agreement at any
end of the month date following the date
that the initial contract period ends by
using the on line function in the TXC
User Facilities, authorised by the nominated
account holder of the service. If the
customer fails to process the cancellation
of their service in this way they will
continue to be billed via the direct
debiting of their nominated bank account or
credit card.
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5.4
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The
customer understands that the ADSL2 service
provided under this agreement includes the
billing of the telephone line necessary to
provide the ADSL2 service. If the customer
“transfers?the billing of the telephone line
to another telephone service provider (who
will charge a line rental) TXC will not
reduce the monthly charge for the bundled
ADSL2 service and the customer will
effectively be paying two charges to
different suppliers for telephone line
rental.
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5.5
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If the
customer terminates the service within the
initial contract period then an early
termination fee of $100.00 is charged.
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5.6 |
The
Customer will remain liable for all charges
incurred by the Customer prior to
termination of this Agreement for whatever
reason. |
6. Governing Law and Entire
Agreement
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6.1 |
Unless the parties
otherwise agree, this Agreement will also
apply to any other Service(s) acquired by
the Customer from TXC in the future. If
the Customer wishes to acquire additional
Service(s), the parties will negotiate and
attach an additional Service(s) Schedule to
this Agreement.
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6.2 |
These terms plus the
terms of the chosen Service(s) constitute
the entire Agreement between the Customer
and TXC in relation to Service(s). Any
condition, warranty, representation or other
term which might otherwise be implied into
or incorporated into these terms and
conditions, or any collateral contract,
whether by statute, common law or otherwise,
is hereby excluded. Neither party shall have
any remedy in respect of any untrue
statement made to it upon which it relied in
entering into this Agreement (unless such
untrue statement was made fraudulently) and
each party’s only remedy shall be for breach
of contract as provided in this Agreement.
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6.3 |
The Customer must not
assign any of its rights or obligations
under this Agreement without TXC’s
consent.
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6.4
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Any notice under this
Agreement whether required to be written or
otherwise may be given by TXC to the
Customer by posting on this web site or via
an email to the email address nominated by
the customer in the TXC ADSL User
Facilities.
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