Contract Q525
Contract Q525
4 Yedseram Street,
Maitama, Abuja FCT
Nigeria
TIN: 01445887-0001
Subscriber Agreement
Subscriber Details
Services
Quote Lines
CONTRACT
CODE DESCRIPTION QTY PERIOD RECURRING SETUP ONCE-OFF
TERM
NEWUNLIMIT50 NEWUNLIMIT5012MM: YahClick 4Gen Unlimited 50 12MM 1 12 Months Monthly 23,255.81 102,325.58 0.00
12MM (NGN25,000.00) set (₦110,000.00) YahClick Charge
HT2000 HT2000: HT2000 (NGN0.00) Stock Service 1 Monthly 0.00 0.00 0.00
Charge
IT-401-600K IT-401-600K: Installation Travelling 251-500km radius 1 Immediate 0.00 0.00 104,651.16
(NGN112,500.00) Charge
Total (excl VAT) ₦23,255.81 ₦102,325.58 ₦104,651.16
VAT (7.5%) ₦1,744.19 ₦7,674.42 ₦7,848.84
Total (incl VAT) ₦25,000.00 ₦110,000.00 ₦112,500.00
Billing Details
Phase3 billing is in advance starting on the day of installation.
Promotion
CODE SPECIAL PROMOTION DETAILS QTY TERM PERIOD RECURRING SETUP ONCE-OFF
NEWUNLIMIT50 NEWUNLIMIT5012MM: YahClick 4Gen Unlimited 50 12MM 1 12 Months Monthly 0.00 102,325.58 0.00
12MM (NGN25,000.00) set (₦110,000.00) YahClick 100.0 % Charge
discount 90 Days
Total (excl VAT) ₦0.00 ₦102,325.58 ₦0.00
VAT (7.5%) ₦0.00 ₦7,674.42 ₦0.00
Total (incl VAT) ₦0.00 ₦110,000.00 ₦0.00
Physical Address
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1 DEFINITIONS
1.1 The following words, which are used in this Agreement, have these meanings as set out
below:
1.1.1 “Act” means the Nigerian Communications Act of 2003 and includes any changes that
are made to the Act from time to time. This Act regulates the Telecommunications
Industry and other related sectors in respect of certain services that these industries
offer;
1.1.2 “Applicant” means you or any other person that has filled in and submitted the
Application Form on your behalf as the Subscriber;
1.1.3 “Agreement” means these terms and conditions, which will apply to any person that
has received any Goods and/or Services from us, read together with the Application
Form, the transaction schedule, our training and user manual as well as any other
applicable documents together with any Renewal Agreement;
1.1.4 “Application Form” means the form a person must fill in, in order to make application
to us for certain Goods and Services that we may offer from time to time;
1.1.5 telecommunications and electronic communications Industry;
1.1.6 “Business Day” means a Monday to Friday, excluding Saturday and Sunday and
excluding any public holiday, which is described in the Public Holiday Act, 36 of 1994;
1.1.7 “Connection date” means the date on which we connect your Goods and Services
onto the Network so that you may use the Services and Goods;
1.1.8 “Charges” means the amounts charged by us in respect of the selected Services and
Goods listed on the Application form. These amounts include, but are not limited to, the
cost of, connection fees, call and data charges, levies, taxes and interest, if any. These
charges will be set out under the Tariff; 1.1.9 “Credit referencing procedure” means
the procedure that we follow to determine the creditworthiness of an Applicant;
1.1.9 “The Commission” means the Nigerian Communications Commission established in
terms of section 1 of the Nigerian Communications Act, 2003 and its successors who governs
and oversees the telecommunications industry
1.1.9 “Due date” means the date on which any amounts that you owe us in respect of the
Selected Services and Goods become due and payable by you, these amounts can be
found on your Monthly invoice;
1.1.9.1 “Fair Usage Policy” means that Phase3 shall ensure that subscribers use available bandwidth
in moderation such that others are not adversely affected. This policy may change from time to
time at the sole discretion of Phase3
1.1.10 “Gift Voucher” means the vouchers issued by us, and shall in some instances be in
the form of a debit card, which will entitle a Subscriber in possession of same to
redeem such voucher for merchandise to the value of the Gift Voucher at those
merchants that we have partnered with and in the case of a debit card voucher, at any
other merchant who is willing to accept the debit card;
1.1.11 “Initial Period” means the initial period of this Agreement as described in the
Application Form under the heading “contract period”. The Initial Period, will begin on
the Connection date and should a period not be specified the Initial Period will be 24
months from the Connection Date;
1.1.12 “Interest rate” means the interest that we may charge you on any outstanding
amounts that are due and owing by you from time to time. Interest may be charged at
the rate of prime plus 2 (two) percent.
1.1.13 “Migration” means your right to change the type of Services you are receiving in
terms of this Agreement. An example of this would be if you chose to move from one
Tariff plan to another;
1.1.14 Good (s)” means satellite equipment, installation thereof, data devices, modems,
computers or laptops, and accessories, that can be used by you to access the Network
for the purpose of using the Services, together with the Tariff plan that you have
selected on your Application Form, which goods and Services, as listed on the
application form, we have agreed to provide to you subject to the terms and conditions
of this Agreement;
1.1.15 “Satellite Operator” means a carrier service provider (CSP), wireless service
provider, wireless carrier, or company that provide services for subscribers. The
current service is provided by a Satellite Service Operator. Some examples of Satellite
operators are Yahsat;
"law" means any law of general application and includes the common law and any statute,
constitution, decree, treaty, regulation, directive, ordinance, by-law, order or any other
enactment or legislative measure of government (including local and provincial government)
statutory or regulatory body which has the force of law;
"person" means any person, company, close corporation, trust, partnership or other entity
whether or not having separate legal personality; and
The words "include" and "including" mean "include without limitation" and "including without
limitation". The use of the words "include" and "including" followed by a specific example or
examples shall not be construed as limiting the meaning of the general wording preceding it.
The words "shall" and "will" and "must" used in the context of any obligation or restriction
imposed on a Party have the same meaning.
Any substantive provision, conferring rights or imposing obligations on a Party and appearing in
any of the definitions in this Clause 1 or elsewhere in this Agreement, shall be given effect to as
if it were a substantive provision in the body of the Agreement.
Words and expressions defined in any clause shall, unless the application of any such word or
expression is specifically limited to that clause, bear the meaning assigned to such word or
expression throughout this Agreement.
Unless otherwise provided, defined terms appearing in this Agreement in title case shall be
given their meaning as defined, while the same terms appearing in lower case shall be
interpreted in accordance with their plain English meaning.
Unless specifically otherwise provided, any number of days prescribed shall be determined by
excluding the first and including the last day or, where the last day falls on a day that is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.
If the due date for performance of any obligation in terms of this Agreement is a day which is not
a Business Day then (unless otherwise stipulated) the due date for performance of the relevant
obligation shall be the immediately preceding Business Day.
Where figures are referred to in numerals and in words, and there is any conflict between the
two, the words shall prevail, unless the context indicates a contrary intention.
No provision of this Agreement shall (unless otherwise stipulated) constitute a stipulation for the
benefit of any person (stipulatio alteri) who is not a Party to this Agreement;
The use of any expression in this Agreement covering a process available under Nigerian law,
such as winding-up, shall, if either of the Parties to this Agreement is subject to the law of any
other jurisdiction, be construed as including any equivalent or analogous proceedings under the
law of such other jurisdiction.
In its interpretation, the contra proferentem rule shall not apply (this agreement being the
product of negotiations between the parties) nor shall this agreement be construed in favour of
or against any party by reason of the extent to which any party or its professional advisors
participate in the preparation of this agreement.
The rule of construction that a contract shall be interpreted against the party responsible for the
drafting or preparation of the contract, shall not apply to this Agreement.
5 NETWORK SERVICES
5.1 Using the Services
5.1.1 All Services and Goods used by you on the Network must be such that can be
approved by NCC. You are also required to comply with all legislation applicable to the
use of the Services and Goods and the Network, including the Act, the Regulations and
any notices or directives issued by the Commission (NCC) from time to time.
5.1.2 You may not use the Network, the Goods and the Services for any improper, immoral
or unlawful purposes.
5.2 Dropped connections and unavailability of networks and discontinuation of VAS services
5.2.1 In the event of dropped connections, unavailability of networks or the discontinuation of
our Value-Added Services you may not:
5.2.1.1 refuse to pay any amount of money that is due and payable by you; or
5.2.1.2 deduct any monies in respect of "dropped" connections or any temporary
unavailability of the Services which are beyond our control, examples of which would
be, extra traffic on the Network, weather, technical problems or restrictions in front of
the satellite receiver, which result in line congestion, fatigue and the general
unavailability of the Network or any VAS services provided to you. As the
Service is dependent on satellite, you confirm that the Service may be affected by
conditions in other parts of the world.
5.2.1.3 We reserves the right to temporarily interrupt or reduce the level of Services (an
Outage) in order to undertake routine maintenance, make repairs, conduct trouble
shooting exercises, make replacements or changes to any equipment utilized in
connection with the provision of the Services. Other than in the case of an
emergency, and to the extent possible, we shall provide prior notice to you of any
potential outage, Satellite Network Operator requirements.
5.2.2 Any Value-Added Services that we offer to you is done so at our option and we may
suspend or withdraw these services for any reason whatsoever. We will give you
reasonable notice before we suspend or withdraw any of our value-added services.
Below are some examples of when we will suspend or withdraw Value Added Services:
5.2.2.1 if the Value-Added Services are suspended by third parties (i.e. the parties that make
the Value-Added Services available to us);
5.2.2.2 if the Value-Added Services are being abused by you or our customers in general;
5.2.2.3 if the Value-Added Service has reached the end of its lifespan, and it is no longer
economical to provide the service;
5.2.2.4 if there is no real demand for a particular Value-Added Service; and/or
5.2.2.5 if the Authority, the Act or some other law or body requires the Valued Added Service
to be discontinued.
5.2.3 After the date of suspension or withdrawal you will not be charged or invoiced for any
Value-Added Service that has been suspended or withdrawn by us.
5.3 Code Numbers
Should it be reasonable and necessary, we will have the right to change any code number
which has been allocated to you in terms of this Agreement.
5.4 Assignment of the Services
We may not always be able to provide you with the Selected
Goods or Services you have requested. Should this be the case you accept that we have
the right to transfer all of our rights and obligations in terms of this Agreement to any
other Network operator. We will inform you if any such change should occur.
5.5 Migration of Services
5.5.1 You have the right to change and/or vary the Services that you are receiving in terms
of this Agreement. This procedure is known as a “migration”.
5.5.2 Your request to migrate will be granted subject to the following conditions:
6.5.2 You agree that all charges, whether data, in relation to the package you have chosen
have been explained to you and you understand how the charges apply.
6.6 Payments
6.6.1 You are responsible for the payment of all Charges detailed on the Monthly invoice on
the due date reflected thereon.
6.6.2 Any amount that you owe us must be paid by a monthly debit order. You authorise us
to debit your bank account as reflected on the application form or as changed by you
from time to time by notifying us, with all Charges detailed on the monthly invoice.
Should we agree that you may pay your account in any other manner, these amounts
must be paid on time and free of deduction or set-off. Payment must be made at our
principal place of business or to our bankers, which details can be found on our
invoice. Non-receipt of a monthly invoice will not be grounds for non-payment by you.
6.6.3 You will remain responsible for payment until payment has been received into our bank
account.
6.6.4 You must advise if you cancel your debit order agreement. If you cancel the debit order
without our prior written permission to do so you will be in breach of this Agreement. If
any debit order or cheque payment is returned, unpaid or stopped or if any charge card
account or credit card account is rejected, we will have the right to suspend your
account until such outstanding amounts and reconnection Charges have been received
and paid in full by you.
6.7 Changes to Charges
We will have the right to increase and / or reduce any of the amounts detailed under the Tariff.
This will not be done without giving you 30 days’ notice of such change nor will it be done within
6 months of your contract start or renewal date.
6.8 Credit Limit and credit checks
6.8.1 If you fail to meet the conditions of our credit checks we will have the right to refuse to
provide you with any of the Goods or Services that you have applied for.
6.8.2 You accept and understand that by entering into this Agreement you have given us
permission to not only check the correctness of the information you have given us, but
to also carry out general credit checks in order to determine your creditworthiness.
6.8.3 We will have the right to place a limit on the Charges that you may incur in respect of
the Selected Goods and Services, and will further be entitled to suspend any of our
services if you exceed that limit.
6.8.4 We will notify you of the limit that has been approved for you upon acceptance of this
agreement by us. Your approved limit will remain valid for a period of no less than 6
(six) months from the date on which we accept your application and from the time that
you make your first payment to us. The limit may be reviewed by us after the 6 (six)
months have passed and only if you have not defaulted in your payments to us during
the first 6 (six) months from the date on which this agreement began.
6.8.5 If you default in your payments to us during the first 6 (six) months then we may
10 LIABILITY
10.1 Except for any liability which we may incur or be liable for under section 61 of the Consumer
Protection Act, 2004, and if such liability is proved in a court of law, we will not be liable for
any loss or damage that you or any other person may suffer as a result of your use of the
Selected Goods and/ or Services whether in contract or delict. Under no circumstance shall
we be liable for any loss of profit, data, opportunity, goodwill or executive time. Our entire
liability, subject to 11.1 is limited to your monthly invoice, in the month immediately
preceding the event, under all circumstances.
10.2 We will not be liable to you if the Selected Services, including the Network, are interrupted,
suspended or cancelled for any reason that is beyond our direct control.
10.3 We will have the right to change any number, code, password, user identity or name
allocated to you, and we will not be liable to you for any loss or damages that may occur as
a result of such change. You understand that these numbers do not belong to us, and that
any change that we may make will be as a result of a directive issued by the Commission in
terms of the Act.
12 DISPUTE RESOLUTION
12.1 If after you have followed the procedure described in clause 11.3 above you are still not
satisfied with any of our attempts to resolve your complaint and the matter in dispute does
not involve a complicated issue of law, or does not involve an amount larger than any
amount the Authority may determine from time to time then either Party may declare a
dispute by delivering the details of the dispute to the other Party, and may request and may
request that the dispute be referred by the Parties, with or without legal representation, to
arbitration by a single arbitrator within the High’ Court jurisdiction where the services in terms
of this Agreement are provided.
12.2 The arbitrator will determine the place and time of the arbitration proceedings.
12.3 The arbitration proceedings will have conducted by a single arbitrator. The parties will agree
amongst themselves who the arbitrator will be. If, for some reason the Parties cannot
agree on an arbitrator either Party may request the Chairman of the Association of
Arbitrators or the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Branch, within that area, to
appoint an arbitrator.
12.4 The Parties will make sure that the arbitrator appointed in terms of this clause has the
necessary skills to allow him to decide the dispute in a satisfactory manner.
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17 CESSION
We have the right to cede any or all of the rights or obligations that we may have in terms of this
Agreement. We also have the right to assign part or all of this Agreement to any third party. If
19 WHOLE AGREEMENT
This document is the entire Agreement, and no Party to this Agreement will have to comply with
any term or condition that does not form part of this Agreement.
20 AUTHORITY
When any person is acting on our behalf and he/she has the necessary authority to do so, our
authority does not need to be proved.
23 SEVERABILITY
If one or more of these terms and conditions are found to be unenforceable or unreasonable it
will be removed from this Agreement, but all remaining terms and conditions will continue to
apply. If any part, term or provision of this agreement shall be held void, illegal, unenforceable,
or in conflict with any law having jurisdiction over this agreement, the validity of the remaining
portions or provisions shall not be affected thereby
25 FORCE MAJEURE
Delay or failure to comply with or breach of any of the terms and conditions of this agreement if
occasioned by or resulting from any act of God, public enemy, fire, explosion, earthquake, perils
of the sea, flood, storm or other adverse weather conditions, war declared or undeclared, civil
war, revolution, civil commotion or other civil strife, riot, strikes, lockouts or other labour
disputes, sabotage, accident, blockade, embargo, epidemics, act of any Government or other
Authority, compliance with Government orders, demands or regulations, or any circumstances
of like or different nature beyond the reasonable control of the party so failing, shall not be
deemed to be a breach of this agreement nor shall it subject either party to any liability to the
other.
Should either party be prevented from carrying out its contractual obligations by force majeure
lasting continuously for a period of 6 (six) weeks, the parties shall consult with each other
regarding the future implementation of the agreement. If no mutually acceptable arrangement is
arrived at within a period of 1 (one) month thereafter, either party shall be entitled to terminate
the agreement forthwith on written notice.
28 COSTS
28.1 Your costs that you may have incurred as a result of our breach of any of the terms and
conditions of this Agreement will be paid by us on an attorney and own client scale.
28.2 We will be entitled to recover from you, all and any costs that we may incur as a result of any
breach of the terms and conditions of this Agreement by you. Some examples of such costs
would be legal costs as on an attorney and own client scale, tracing costs and collection
commission.
28.3 This agreement constitutes the whole agreement between the parties as to the subject
matter hereof and no agreement, representations or warranties between the parties other
than those set out herein are binding on the parties
28.4 No variation, modification or waiver of any provision of this agreement, or consent to any
departure there from, shall in any event be of any force or effect unless confirmed in writing
and signed by all the parties hereto; and then such variation, modification, waiver or consent
shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose and to the extent for which
it was made or given.
28.5 This agreement shall be governed by and interpreted under the substantive law of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria in all respects and shall ignore any conflicts of jurisdiction
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