| UK-Wide 03 Inbound |
14/12/07 - 001
03 numbers are an alternative to 08 numbers like 0845, 0844,
0870 and 0871. Calls to 03 numbers will cost no more than calls to national
geographic numbers (starting 01 or 02), and will be included as part of any
inclusive call minutes or discount schemes in the same way as geographic calls.
Organisations using 03 numbers will be able to offer consumers a single national
point of contact without involving additional charges for the service, over
and above the cost of calls to geographic numbers.
Numbers starting 030 will be designated for use only by public
bodies and not-for-profit services.
Numbers starting 033 can be used by any organisation.
As with 08 services, 03 numbers will allow the full suite of routing functionality such as:
Geographic Routing
Offers a complete geographic routing capability based upon the STD code system.
The level of granularity for this routing can be extended down to the individual
local exchange level, or even down to an individual telephone number.
Date of Year
Allows pre-programmed routing for specific days, separate from the day of week
routing. This is particularly useful for public holidays, or for efficiently
managing staff holidays.
Day of Week
Allows pre-programmed routing based upon the day of week, with the option of
individual days being allocated specific routing plans.
Time of Day
Allows a complete range of time specific routing, such as the routing of calls
during working hours to a main number while out-of-hours calls are sent to a
secondary site or a voicemail system.
Ratio Distribution Routing
Offers the ability to distribute traffic based upon a percentage distribution
basis. This feature is useful where there are a number of different sites receiving
calls from a single IN number and it is important to distribute calls evenly
among the sites.
Diversion of Calls
Offers the ability to route calls on an overflow basis if the primary destination
is engaged or unanswered. The diversion upon no answer can be offered on a bespoke
ring period before the alternative destination is invoked, for example routing
to the alternative destination after 10 or 15 seconds of ringing. The IN platform
differentiates between engaged and unanswered destinations and offers the ability
to re-route according to each individual failure.
Charging Structure:
UK-Wide 03 Inbound includes the following key charge elements:
number connection (set-up); number rental; call usage and service features (optional).
Number Connection and Rental Charges
The prices listed exclude any charges for provision, connection, rental and
other charges for standard business exchange lines, Kingston Centrex lines and
any telephone or other equipment connected to the line(s).
The normal method of delivery for this service is delivery to the customer's
PSTN number.
Permanent Service (New and Takeover - minimum rental period of 12 months)
Connection Charge |
Monthly Rental |
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Exc. VAT |
Inc. VAT |
Exc. VAT |
Inc. VAT |
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Standard number, per number |
£0.00 |
£0.00 |
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Select number, per number |
£0.00 |
£24.99 |
£29.36 |
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Temporary Service
Connection Charge |
Monthly Rental |
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Exc. VAT |
Inc. VAT |
Exc. VAT |
Inc. VAT |
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Standard number, per number |
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First 3 months or part thereof |
£0.00 |
£45.00 |
£52.88 |
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Subsequent month or part thereof |
N/A |
£39.00 |
£45.83 |
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Select number, per number |
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First 3 months or part thereof |
£0.00 |
£150.00 |
£176.25 |
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Subsequent month or part thereof |
N/A |
£99.00 |
£116.33 |
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The rental charge payable under the temporary service comprises
of the first three months at the initial rate and any following months are chargeable
at the lower rate.
Call Charges:
Number |
Proposed Charges for Customers - ppm |
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Daytime |
Evening |
Weekend |
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Exc. VAT |
Inc. VAT |
Exc. VAT |
Inc. VAT |
Exc. VAT |
Inc. VAT |
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030 and 033 |
3.00 |
3.53 |
3.00 |
3.53 |
3.00 |
3.53 |
Advanced Features - Permanent/Temporary Service
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Connect and Rental Charges |
Charge
or |
Monthly Rental |
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Exc. VAT |
Inc. VAT |
Exc. VAT |
Inc. VAT |
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Call Routing Features (i) |
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Time of Day (ToD) |
£20.00 |
£23.50 |
£0.00 |
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Day of Week (DoW) |
£20.00 |
£23.50 |
£0.00 |
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Date of Year (DoY) |
£20.00 |
£23.50 |
£0.00 |
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Diversion of calls (g,h) |
£20.00 |
£23.50 |
£0.00 |
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Geographical routing – per Zone |
£20.00 |
£23.50 |
£0.00 |
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Change to routing Plan |
£50.00 |
£58.75 |
N/A |
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CLI Barring |
£20.00 |
£23.50 |
£0.00 |
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Ratio Distribution routing |
£20.00 |
£23.50 |
£0.00 |
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Alterations At Customer Request
Connect and Rental Charges |
Charge or Single Payment |
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Exc. VAT |
Inc. VAT |
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Change of Service number |
£79.00 |
£92.83 |
Change of Destination number |
£79.00 |
£92.83 |
Emergency Change request (e) |
£105.00 |
£123.38 |
Terms that have been defined in the Conditions For Telephone
Service shall have the same meanings if they are used in this Schedule of additional
conditions.
The following additional conditions will apply where you use any of your exchange
lines to receive number translation services
1. Early Termination Charges
(i) Customers who terminate their contract (Permanent) before the expiry of
the full contract terms (ie minimum period) will be liable for charges incurred
to the end of the minimum contract period.
2. Reserving Telephone Numbers
(i) Customers have no right to sell or transfer any number allocated to them
by KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS to any other person.
(ii) Customers may request KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS to reserve a number (either
standard or select) for a period of 3 months from the date KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS
agrees the reservation request. The initial reservation can not be extended
and at the end of the period of reservation the number will be made available
for re-issue to other Customers.
3. Arrangements with Third Parties
(i) The Contract for the provision of these services is between KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS
and the person with whom KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS makes the Contract ("the
Customer"). Where the Customer makes arrangements with third parties, the
Customer remains responsible to KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS under the Contract.
Any arrangements the Customer has with such third parties for the provision
of these services are entirely the Customer’s responsibility.
(ii) KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS will issue an invoice to any address nominated
in writing by the Customer, but KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS payment terms continue
to apply and the Customer remains liable for all charges incurred, in the event
of non-payment by any third party
4. Existing Exchange Lines
(i) We will only provide number translation services to you on our business
exchange lines. You must have an existing agreement with us for all of the business
exchange lines you use in connection with your number translation service.
5. Setting up your Services
(i) We shall arrange for our network to provide you with the number translation
services you have requested. We shall try to meet any target service date and
service levels we have agreed with you but will not accept any liability if
we are unable to do this.
6. Use of your Services
(i) You must only use your number translation service in accordance with the
requirements of any relevant licenses, legislation or industry regulations.
(ii) Where applicable, you must ensure that you use your number translation
service in accordance with any codes of practice and other guidelines published
by PhonepayPlus (formerly ICSTIS) at all times. You must ensure that you hold
any necessary authorisations you need to use your number translation service
from PhonepayPlus.
(iii) You must not use your number translation service for the purposes of sending
any message or communication which is offensive, abusive, indecent, obscene
or menacing or which causes annoyance, inconvenience or worry to any person
or which is fraudulent, defamatory or intended to be a hoax call to any emergency
service or for any other purpose which may damage our reputation.
(iv) If you fail to comply with the requirements of the two preceding paragraphs,
we will be entitled to immediately terminate your right to use your number translation
service.
(v) We will only be able to supply You with telephone numbers commencing ‘030’ (or any additional number ranges Ofcom allocates for similar use) if You are a public body or ‘not-for-profit’ organisation (pursuant to Ofcom’s guidance). On Our reasonable request, You will provide KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS with any information We require in order to verify Your status as such an organisation. In the event You lose such status, We will terminate provision of 030 numbers (or similar number ranges) to You
(vi) You must accept that we will co-operate with the Police
and any other relevant authorities (including but not limited to the Inland
Revenue and the Trading Standards office) in connection with any misuse or suspected
misuse by you of your number translation service. We will also co-operate with
other telephone companies in connection with any fraudulent, or suspected fraudulent,
activity relating to the use of your number translation service and you also
accept that this co-operation may require us to divulge your name, address and
other information relating to the use of the service.
(vii) You must use your reasonable efforts to ensure that the number of telephone
calls made to you using your number translation service does not significantly
exceed your ability to answer them as this may cause congestion on our network.
Where this kind of congestion occurs, we shall be entitled to suspend your number
translation service until such time as we are satisfied that your use of the
service is no longer likely lead to this kind of congestion.
7. Telephone Numbers
(i) We shall make the telephone numbers we have agreed with you available for
use by you in connection with your number translation service.
(ii) We shall be entitled to change the numbers you use for your number translation
service in the event of OFCOM imposing any numbering scheme on us or in the
event of any other regulatory body requiring us to make changes to or discontinue
the use of your telephone numbers. In the event of this happening, we shall
try to provide you with as much notice of the changes as possible.
(iii) Any telephone numbers you use in connection with your number translation
service shall remain our property at all times and you shall not obtain any
rights to the continued use of these numbers.
(iv) If you fail to use any of the telephone numbers we have agreed to let you
use in connection with your number translation service for a continuous period
in excess of six months, we shall be entitled to withdraw your right to use
the relevant number(s) and make it available for someone else to use. We will
always write to you before doing this
8. Payment Terms
(i) All of the charges and other payment terms that apply to your number translation
service will be as set out in the attached offer letter. These charges may vary
from time to time in line with any changes that we make to the charges in our
price list.
(ii) In addition to the charges we have quoted to you for your use of number
translation services, we shall be entitled to recover from you any charges levied
on us by other telephone companies in respect of calls that are made to your
number translation numbers from public payphones.
(iii) We shall be entitled to withhold any payment that we are due to make to
you in connection with your number translation service if any connected payments
due to us are withheld by other telephone companies as a result of any fraud
or suspected fraud. We shall not then be obliged to make these payments to you
until we have recovered the monies that are owed to us from the relevant telephone
companies.
(iv) Where you are using our Kingston UK-Wide 03 service, you must not exceed
any credit limit that you have agreed with us. If you have exceeded your credit
limit, or we believe that you are likely to exceed your credit limit, we will
be able to suspend your use of these services.
9. Compensation Scheme
(i) The compensation scheme shall not apply to your use of the number translation
service. If you experience a problem with your number translation service, our
liability to you for any losses that you may incur as a result of this shall
be limited to £5,000 for each of the exchange lines you are using for
the services and in any event shall not exceed £20,000.
These limits shall not apply in relation to any injury or death caused by our
negligence.
10. Exclusion of Statutory Rights
(i) The terms of the Contracts (Rights Of Third Parties Act) 1999 shall not
apply to your agreement with us for the supply of number translation services
Notes
(a) Pricing is based on a Permanent contract term with a minimum 1yr service.
(b) Customers requesting a cease of service and provision without a break in
service will be deemed to be making a plan change, not a new provision and the
appropriate charges will be raised.
(c) Standard prices for exchange lines apply - see "Basic & Advanced
Telephony" charges in our Price List.
(d) A Call Routing Plan is a systematic and logical scheme for routing calls
received by a customer, depending on a variety of circumstances surrounding
the call (e.g. day, time, area of origin).
(e) Emergency change request – Customer may request an "Emergency
Change" in cases where their service will be affected due to unforeseen
circumstances. This will only apply to a single terminating number (DTN) "soft
change" where it is also deemed to be "service affecting" to
the customer. KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS will make every attempt to ensure any
valid change request is implemented within 1 hour of accepting the change. At
all other times, faults will be managed in accordance with KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS
Business Care or Business Care Plus services.
(f) KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS will usually provide the service(s) requested for
a standard service (i.e. no call routing plan) within 48 hours and for a complex
service (i.e. with a call routing plan) within 5 working days. KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS
shall have no liability to the customer for failure to achieve this target.
(g) Delivery to Number (DTN): a customer nominates the PSTN number that Kingston
UK-Wide 03 calls will be delivered to. Calls can only be delivered to the PSTN
number, where the PSTN call would be charged at National Long Distance rate
or below. The following are exceptions:
03 UK Wide, Mobile, IDD, Numbers in Other Licensed Operator (OLO) areas, Freefone
0800 or comparable services on OLO networks and Premium Rate. Individual PSTN-DDI
extensions can have calls routed to them. Calls can be delivered to OLO numbers
as long as KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS PSTN number is nominated for billing calls
and connection and rental charges.
(h) Calls diverted to mobile or international numbers will attract the standard
Mobile and International calling tariffs shown in KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS price
list.
(i) This charge will apply on each occasion that a feature is changed or added;
or a change is made to a feature or terminating telephone number, per feature
and/or terminating number changed. This feature charge does not apply where
a feature connection charge is raised.