NETWORK MANAGEMENT
South Central Rural Telecommunications Cooperative Inc (SCRTC) and South Central Telcom LLC (SCT) utilize a redundant network architecture that is designed to meet users’ demand at peak periods. SCRTC and SCT deploy generally accepted technical measures to provide acceptable service levels to all customers, such as application-neutral bandwidth allocation, as well as measures to address service attacks, illegal content and other harmful activities as necessary to protect network integrity and reliability. In doing so, we follow standard best efforts for Internet delivery with respect to allocation of capacity without differentiation among applications, providers, or sources. As described further in our Acceptable Use Policy, SCRTC/SCT reserve the right to prioritize traffic applications during heavy congestion periods based on generally accepted technical measures that do not unduly discriminate based on site nature or content.
SCRTC/SCT utilize standard industry practices for safeguarding children, intellectual property rights and customers’ privacy and security. SCRTC/SCT comply with applicable laws and regulations, including the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires the consent of a parent or guardian for the collection of personally identifiable information from children under 13 as well as the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitations Act, a portion of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that allows Internet service providers to remove or disconnect customer access to copyright infringing material.
Subject to the terms of SCRTC/SCT’s Acceptable Use Policy and service agreements, customers may generally attach the devices of their choice and run the applications of their choice, subject to the limitations of their data plan. SCRTC/SCT is not responsible for the compatibility, suitability or functionality of any equipment that is provided by the customer or any third party, and the customer remains fully responsible for ensuring that any such equipment does not cause any harm to the network or degrade the service of other users.