Office Phone Service – Terms and Conditions
The terms in this section, called the “service terms”, apply to a group of services or a specific service within a group.The following service terms apply to all Exchange Services.
Exchange Services is a group of services offered by TELUS that enable you to make and receive voice and data calls using your communications equipment and systems. These services provide connections to TELUS’ telephone exchanges and network, and access to the public switched telephone network, called the “PSTN”.
Long distance service is not included with the Exchange Services unless otherwise specified below. If you make long distance calls using your Exchange Service, your long distance service provider charges will apply. If you use TELUS long distance service and such service is not included with the Exchange Services, and you have not signed a TELUS long distance service agreement, the general terms at www.telus.com/LDServiceTerms and TELUS’ standard charges will apply to your use of TELUS long distance service.
The charges in the Service Charges table do not include charges that TELUS is required to bill and collect by law, such as message relay surcharges, 9-1-1 charges, or local calling area expansion charges, unless otherwise specified below.
1.3 Features and Conditions
We will send you an email message when the Exchange Service is ready to install at a service location. You must make sure the email address you provide to us for this purpose is correct and able to receive email. If:
a) you do not provide us with the necessary access to the service location in order to install the Exchange Service within 6 months from the date we send you the email message, or
b) you ask us to delay or do not allow us to install the Exchange Service at the service location for longer than 6 months from the date we send you the email message,
TELUS has the right to cancel the Exchange Service at that service location. You will be required to pay cancellation charges for this Exchange Service.
Some Exchange Services include a directory listing. If a mistake is made in your directory listing, TELUS must correct the listing in the next directory, and reimburse you for charges you pay for a premium directory listing until the next directory is published, up to a maximum of 12 months of charges. TELUS will not be obligated to pay any other compensation and will have no other liability to you for mistakes made related to your directory listing.
TELUS may assign a telephone number for your use with an Exchange Service. You will not own or have property rights or any other rights in the telephone numbers assigned for your use with any services. TELUS may change a telephone number assigned to you if we have reasonable grounds for changing it. If you change your service location, we may need to assign a new telephone number to you
TELUS will not be liable for any costs, damages, or other amounts resulting from changes to telephone numbers.
When a call is made to the emergency telephone number 9-1-1, TELUS sends location information to the 9-1-1 operator. However, this information may not accurately identify the actual location of the caller, especially If you have made or requested changes to the name or number displayed for calls made at your service location. Therefore, when a call is made to 9-1-1, the caller must provide the 9-1-1 operator with the correct address of the emergency. If someone uses an Exchange Service at your service location to make a call to 9-1-1 and does not or cannot provide this information, emergency services may be dispatched to the wrong location, and compensation may be claimed from TELUS. You will be responsible and liable to TELUS for all loss and liability sustained by TELUS relating to that claim.
You acknowledge that when anyone uses an Exchange Service at your service location to make a call to someone with a call display service, the telephone number may be displayed, even if it is unlisted. TELUS may also use that telephone number for call trace service. Our commitment in this agreement to keep your information confidential does not limit the display or use of the telephone number in these circumstances.
The service terms in this subsection apply only to Office Phone Service, which is an Exchange Service, in forborne exchanges.
Office Phone Service provides you with one or more analog connections, called “business lines”, from your telephone equipment and systems to the TELUS network. Each business line enables access to the PSTN. The service ends at a single point at your service location or, if your service location is within a multi-occupant building or campus, at a point within that building or campus where our equipment and communications connections are located.
The service includes:
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One telephone number for each business line | Included | Included | Included |
One directory listing for each individual business line and for each multi-line group of business lines | Included | Included | Included |
Free local calling in the service location area | Included | Included | Included |
Message relay surcharge | Included | Included | Included |
North American Long Distance | none | 150 minutes | unlimited |
Calling Feature* | 1 | unlimited | unlimited | |
*Available Calling Features listed below. TELUS may change or discontinue available Calling Features at any time without notice.
Call Forwarding Busy No Answer,
Call Forwarding No Answer,
Call Forwarding Variable,
Call Forwarding Fixed Central Office.
Charges Specified in the Service Charges table.
Service Cancellation Charges
When your Office Phone Service is cancelled, TELUS calculates the service cancellation charge using the table below, based on the service period you selected, the service cancellation charge is a percentage of the total service charges for your Service Commitment remaining in the service period after cancellation.
Contracted Service Period (months) | % of fixed monthly charges for remaining service period |
0-24 months | 100% |
25-60 months | 50% |
TELUS will waive the service cancellation charge if you replace the cancelled service with another TELUS service with total service charges greater than the total service charges for your Service Commitment remaining in the service period for the Office Phone Service after cancellation.