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Section 56:Business Customer Options

Part 19:BT Call Centre Advance


Subpart 1:BT Call Centre Advance

BT Call Centre Advance (CCA) is an outbound call centre option for business customers and is available with the BT Customer Commitment, BT Business Plan (Customer Based option) or BT Premier Value.

The Customer pays a monthly channel and/or line fee and will pay a reduced charge for inland geographic and fixed to mobile calls.

Customers wishing to take advantage of CCA must enter into a new BT Customer Commitment, BT Business Plan (Customer Based option) or BT Premier Value Contract. CCA will have the same Contract Period.

  • 1) BT will register the Customer for CCA.
  • 2) BT will send a draft Inventory to the Customer together with the CCA Application Form for the Customer to complete.
  • 3) The Customer will agree the Inventory, nominate the telephone number(s) and site ID(s) in Section 2 of the CCA Application Form, and return to BT.
  • 4) BT will confirm the Contract including the Operational Service Date and activate the CCA prices commencing on the Operational Service Date.
  • 5) BT will sign and return the Contract to the Customer.

Definitions

CCA spend means the monthly fee and any associated call charges at CCA call prices

Eligibility

CCA can only be applied to ISDN30e, ISDN30 DASS 2, ISDN30 I421, ISDN2, ISDN2e, Business Highway, PSTN and Featureline.

ISDN30 I421, ISDN2 DASS2, Business Highway and Business Highway/Featureline have been withdrawn from new supply with effect from 10 April 2006.

Total Contributory Call Spend

CCA Spend will contribute towards the Total Contributory Call Spend for BT Customer Commitment, BT Business Plan (Customer Based option) or BT Premier Value.

Exclusions

CCA prices do not apply to:

  • - Residential lines.
  • - Service Provider Calls and Access Lines.
  • - Payphone lines rented at the standard payphone line rate.
  • - Temporary Lines/ Temporary Service Lines.
  • - Rented Cardphone Lines.
  • - Lines not provided by BT.
  • - PSTN/ISDN calls allowances.
  • - Charge cards billed to a commercial credit card.
  • - All call types other than Local, National Geographic and Fixed to Mobile (fm1, fm3, fm4 fm5, fm7, fm8, fm9 and fm10).
  • - All discount packages other than BT Customer Commitment, BT Business Plan (Customer Based option), BT Premier Value and BT Dual.
  • - Fixed line outbound text messages.
  • - BT Controlled Outgoing Call Barred lines.

Pricing Information

For a fee of £10.00 (exc VAT) per month per eligible line or channel, the following call prices apply:

GeographicInland Callscalls (including calls to 0870)





Call Type

Pence Per minute

Midnight - 7am

7am - 10pm

First 90 Seconds

7am - 10pm

After first 90 Seconds

10pm - Midnight

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

Local

1.9

2.185

0.00

0.000

1.9

2.185

1.9

2.185

National

1.9

2.185

0.00

0.000

1.9

2.185

1.9

2.185

Fixed to Mobile Calls





Call Type

Pence Per minute

Price in pence

daytime

Mon-Fri

7am-7pm

evenings & night-time

Mon-Fri before 7am & after 7pm

weekend

All Day Sat & Sun

Calls shorter than 10 seconds made between 7am and 10pm

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

fm1

8.90

10.235

7.64

8.786

3.52

4.048

0.00

0.000

fm3

11.62

13.363

5.95

6.843

4.47

5.141

0.00

0.000

fm4

9.70

11.155

7.12

8.188

5.15

5.923

0.00

0.000

fm5

11.57

13.306

2.87

3.301

1.95

2.243

0.00

0.000

fm7

11.62

13.363

5.95

6.843

4.47

5.141

0.00

0.000

fm8

10.938

12.579

8.969

10.315

4.944

5.686

0.00

0.000

fm9

9.275

10.667

7.875

9.057

4.638

5.334

0.00

0.000

fm10

14.000

16.100

10.938

12.579

4.638

5.334

0.00

0.000

fm11

12.250

14.088

12.250

14.088

12.250

14.088

0.00

0.000

fm12

9.830

11.305

9.830

11.305

9.830

11.305

0.00

0.000

All other call types and lines/channels on the inventory but not included under the option will be charged at the Customers prevailing discount package.

See General Notes Section Dialled Call Charges for details of Call Duration and Call Charges rounding.

Conditions

1) Standard Conditions for Telephone Service for Business will continue to apply to the Customer and, as appropriate, BT Customer Commitment, BT Business Plan (Customer Based option), BT Premier Value, BT Business One Plan or BT Business Reward as amended by these conditions.

2) On joining CCA, CCA prices and, as appropriate, BT Customer Commitment, BT Business Plan (Customer Based option) BT Premier Value, BT Business One Plan or BT Business Reward prices will apply. All other call discount schemes applicable to all the channels and/or lines specified in the Inventory will be ceased from the Operational Service Date.

3) Customers must sign up to at least:

  • i) a Committed Call Spend of £5000.00 on Customer Commitment; or.
  • ii) a Committed Call Spend of £5000.00 on BT Business Plan (Customer Based option); or
  • iii) The Spend Band A under BT Premier Value.
  • iv) a Committed Communications Spend of £5,000 on BT Business One Plan
  • v) a Committed Calls and Lines Spend of £5,000 on BT Business Reward

4) A minimum of 8 channels and/or lines per Site must be nominated for inclusion under CCA. When nominating a telephone number, all channels and/or lines sharing the same telephone number will be included in CCA.

5) Where the number of channels and/or lines fall below the minimum of 8 channels and/or lines per Site, the CCA will be withdrawn on that Site.

6) Customers may opt channels and/or lines out of CCA as long as they maintain at least 50% of the channels and/or lines nominated at the time of application. If the Contract Period is 24 months, at the end of the first 12 months the 50% figure will be adjusted to 50% of the number of channels and/or lines nominated at the 12 month date. Where the Contract Period is renewed in accordance with the Contract, the 50% figure will be adjusted to 50% of the number of channels and/or lines nominated on CCA on the first day of the new Contract Period.

7) Where a Customer falls below the requirement described in paragraph 6, the CCA will be withdrawn and Customers will revert to BT Customer Commitment, BT Business Plan (Customer Based option), BT Premier Value, BT Business One Plan or BT Business Reward as applicable.

8) BT reserves the right to withdraw CCA [ the CCA product will be withdrawn and Customers will revert to BT Customer Commitment, BT Business Plan (Customer Based option), BT Premier Value, BT Business One Plan or BT Business Reward as applicable ] if :

i) there is evidence of automated management of outgoing call durations of less than 90 seconds.

ii) there is evidence that 90% or greater of total calls are made within the free period in any calendar month and this trend continues after BT has notified the Customer and allowed time for a review of the calling profile. The 90% or greater of total calls within the free period will take into account the volume of calls per line - where this is less than 1000 calls per line per month, this condition will not be applied. [ "Total calls" means an aggregate of Inland (Local and National Geographic) calls and Fixed to Mobile calls. "Free period" means where no charge has been raised for the entire call duration - for inland calls the first 90 seconds are free; for fixed to mobile calls, calls under 10 seconds are free]

9) Call Alert Classic is available free of charge on all of the lines/channels nominated under CCA. Customers are required to agree the Terms and Conditions of BT Call Alert Classic Section 15 Part 10 On termination of CCA, Call Alert Classic will not terminate and the relevant pricing will then apply.

Termination

Where the Customer wished to terminate CCA, they must give 7 days written notice to BT. This communication must be sent to your BT Account Manager.

No termination charges will apply for termination of CCA and the Customer will revert to a BT Customer Commitment, BT Business Plan (Customer Based option), BT Premier Value, BT Business One Plan or BT Business Reward Contract.