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Rules and Regulations

Governing Contracts For Local Exchange Service

Construction and Installation Charges The charges and regulations specified in the Ardmore Telephone Company’s general exchange tariff apply in connection with all classes of service, equipment or facilities by the Ardmore Telephone Company. Customer premise equipment will be installed on a non-regulated basis. When a specified type of construction is desired by a subscriber, as for example, when underground service connections are desired in places where aerial drop wires are regularly used to reach subscrib- er’s premises or where the individual requirements of subscriber make the installation unusually expensive, the subscriber is required to bear the cost of such special construction or installation. Directory Listings or Omissions It is desired that all subscribers shall be properly listed in the directo- ry. Errors or omissions should be promptly reported to the customer service department. The Ardmore Telephone Company and the publishers of this directory assume no liability whatever for damages accruing from such errors. Authorized Use of the Telephone Telephone equipment and facilities are furnished for the use of the subscriber, employees, agents or representatives of the subscriber or members of the subscriber’s domestic establishment.

Rates, other than for short-term season service and private branch exchange service, are based on annual contracts. Bills are rendered monthly. Ardmore Telephone Company reserves the right to discontinue ser- vice without further notice unless prompt payment of bill is made. If service is suspended for non-payment of account, service will be restored only upon the payment of the restoration charge in addition to payment of bill in full. Service Connection Charges Service connection charges as filed with the Alabama and Tennessee Public Service Commissions will be quoted by contacting the Ardmore Telephone Company business office. Moving of Telephone Subscribers wishing their telephones moved from one location to another should give notice to the commercial office of the Ardmore Telephone Company as far in advance of the date the change is desired as possible. The Ardmore Telephone Company will, subject to the usual charges, change the location provided it has facilities available, at as early a date as practicable and the conditions under which it is then working permit.

All equipment leased by the Ardmore Telephone Company shall remain the property of the Ardmore Telephone Company. Such equipment shall not be used for any toll or consideration to be paid by any other person than the subscriber, nor for perform- ing any part of the work of transmitting, delivering or collecting any message, where any toll or consider- ation has been or is to be paid any party other than the Ardmore Telephone Company, without the writ- ten consent of the Ardmore Telephone Company.

Responsibility of Payment The subscriber shall pay monthly in advance or on demand all charges for exchange service and equipment and shall pay monthly on demand all charges for toll service. The subscriber assumes responsibility for all charges for exchange service and toll messages originating at the subscriber’s station, and for toll messages received at the subscriber’s station, and for toll messages received at the subscriber’s station on which the charges have been reversed with consent to the person called. In the event of abandonment of the station, the nonpayment of any sum due or any other violation by the subscriber of the Ardmore Telephone Company’s rules and regulations applying to subscriber’s contracts or to the furnishing of service, the Ardmore Telephone Company may, without notice, either, (a) suspend service until all violations have ceased, or (b) terminate the subscriber’s contract without suspension of service, or (c) following a suspension of ser- vice, sever the connection and remove any of its equipment from the subscriber’s premises. When instruments have been removed for non-payment, the contract is considered to have been terminated. Re-installation of service may be made only upon the execution of a new contract.

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