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Telephone Dialing Changes in Effect
Starting October 24, 2021, all Colorado phone users, Elevate phone customers included, with the 970 and 719 area code must dial all 10 digits when making a local phone call. The 10-digit phone number includes the area code, plus the telephone number. Calls will not be completed if all 10 digits are not dialed.
This change was implemented by the Federal Communication Commission after authorizing 988 as the universal abbreviated dialing code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The 988 code will NOT go into effect until July 2022, however, for it to work, consumers in the 970 and 719 area codes must now transition to 10-digit dialing. People must still dial 1-800-273-8255 to reach the Lifeline until July 2022 and can continue to reach the Lifeline on that number even after the 988 dialing code is in effect.
Timeline
Important Reminders
You may need to update documentation and reprogram your phone equipment or software, including but not limited to the following:
For more information on the change, visit fcc.gov/suicide-prevention-hotline. For a full list of affected area codes, visit nationalnanpa.com.
Backup Power for Home Phone Services during Power Outages
For many years, your home phone would allow you to stay connected to emergency voice services during a power outage. However, many of today’s advanced home phone services require backup battery power to continue functioning during an outage. To avoid a disruption of home voice service during an outage – and to maintain the ability to connect to 911 emergency services -- we at Elevate offer you the option of leasing backup power for your home phones.
What Your Battery Can and Can't Do for You
Elevate backup batteries for telephone allows you to continue to use your home voice services during a power outage. Without a backup battery or alternate backup source such as a generator, customers will not be able to make any calls, including emergency calls to 911. The only way to maintain the ability to use your phone is by using some form of backup power.
Elevate’s backup battery does not provide power to any of your personal devices. It will only ensure that Elevate’s internet and voice services continue to work during the power outage. Home security systems, medical monitoring devices, personal computers and other equipment will not run on a home phone backup battery.
Purchase and Replacement Options
If you are concerned about being able to contact 911 emergency services during a power outage, a backup battery may be a good option for you.
You can lease a backup battery directly through Elevate. If you have any questions or simply want to lease a backup battery through us, please call 844-386-8744, visit our website at elevateinternet.com. The cost of our 8-hour backup batteries is $4.95/month. The cost of our 24-hour backup options start at $14.85/month. If you do not feel comfortable installing your own battery, please call us to make an appointment, and we would be happy to assist you. However, please note that there may be a charge for this service.
A subscriber also may choose to purchase a backup battery solution through a local or online retailer. Elevate can provide the subscriber with model information of our backup battery solution that matches the type of equipment being installed. Although a subscriber may self-install an alternative backup battery solution, Elevate will not install or replace equipment purchased from an alternate vendor. If a subscriber leases the backup battery solution from Elevate, we will install the solution at no charge as long as the solution is purchased PRIOR to the initial installation of service. After the initial installation of service, our backup solution will be available for self-install OR a request for Elevate to perform the installation can be made at standard hourly service rates.
When Elevate does install our backup battery solution, Elevate is not responsible for testing, monitoring or replacing defective batteries. Elevate does not guarantee uninterrupted telephone services even to subscribers that have working backup batteries or other power supplies. In some instances, such as during a weather event, the public telephone network may experience other problems that would prevent normal operation of services even if there is backup power available.
Expected Backup Power Duration
Backup batteries are expected to last at least 8 hours on standby power. If you feel that is not enough time, you may extend your standby power by leasing a 16 hour or 24 hour battery, for an additional fee or additional 8 hour batteries.
Instructions for Proper Care and Use of Your Battery
Please follow the more detailed instructions included with your battery for proper use, storage and care of your battery to ensure that it will function as needed during a power outage. If you do not store your battery correctly, it may shorten its useful life. Environmental factors such as temperature can shorten your battery’s useful life. We recommend that you store your battery above 41°F and below 104°F.
These batteries are [not] rechargeable. They will not last forever and should be replaced every 1 to 2 years, or when your device starts to make a loud beeping sound. That sound means that the battery is depleted, and must be replaced.
Battery Warranty
If a backup device fails due to no fault of the subscriber, Elevate will provide a replacement device free of charge, however the service call fees apply. If a backup device fails due to the fault of the subscriber who is covered under the equipment protection plan, Elevate will provide a replacement device free of charge, however service call fees apply. If a backup device fails due to the fault of the subscriber who is not covered under the equipment protection plan, the subscriber will pay for the device and the service call fees.
The FCC requires that as TV provider, Elevate Fiber (Elevate) must notify customers of the following.
TERMS OF SERVICE: ACCEPTABLE RESIDENTIAL USE POLICY
FOR
DMEA UTILITIES SERVICES, LLC (“ELEVATE”)
Effective September 7, 2016
BACKGROUND
To ensure the quality, security, and reliability of its fiber optic broadband service (the “Service”), Elevate has adopted this Acceptable Residential Use Policy (the “Residential Use Policy”). The Residential Use Policy applies to each residential customer’s (“Customer”) use of the Service, and forms a part of the Terms of Service referenced in the Residential Fiber Optic Broadband Service Application and Agreement (“Agreement”). This Residential Use Policy supersedes previous residential use policies, and governs each Customer’s access to and use of the Service.
RESIDENTIAL USE POLICY
1. Binding Nature of this Policy. By using the Service, Customer agrees to abide by the binding terms of this Residential Use Policy. Elevate may modify this Residential Use Policy at any point in the future, and all such modifications are also binding. Any Customer who does not agree to be bound by the terms of the Residential Use Policy must immediately stop using the Service and notify Elevate to terminate the account.
2. Elevate’s Right to Suspend or Terminate Service. Elevate reserves the right to immediately suspend, terminate, or restrict use of the Service without notice if such use—in Elevate’s sole discretion—violates this Residential Use Policy or interferes with Elevate’s Service or network.
3. Permitted Use. The residential Service is designed only for personal and family use within a single household. Customer agrees that only Customer and Customer’s authorized guests in the same household will use the Service. Customer will not use, or enable others to use, the Service for a business or commercial enterprise. Reselling or otherwise redistributing the Service—including by wireless means—is strictly prohibited.
4. Customer’s Responsibility for Use of the Service. Customer is responsible for any transmission sent, received, posted, accessed, or stored via the Service through Customer’s account, including the content of any communication. Customer is also responsible for any misuse of the Service, violation of law, violation of this Residential Use Policy, or violation of the other Terms of Service that occurs through Customer’s account—whether by Customer, or by an authorized or unauthorized third party.
5. Illegal or Harmful Use Prohibited. Customer may use the Service only for lawful purposes. Any use of the Service to transmit, receive, or store material that violates any law or which is harmful is prohibited. By way of example only, the following illegal and/or harmful conduct is prohibited:
a. Offensive Materials: Disseminating or posting material that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, explicit, lewd, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable.
b. Infringement: Infringement of intellectual property rights such as copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other intellectual property right.
c. Fraudulent Conduct: Offering or disseminating fraudulent goods, services, schemes, or promotions (e.g., pyramid schemes, chain letters, “pump and dump” stock fraud, make-money-fast schemes).
d. Failure to Abide by Third-Party Policies: Violating the rules, regulations, or policies that apply to any third-party network, server, or computer database that you access.
e. Harmful Content: Disseminating or posting harmful content including viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or any other computer or other programming routines that may damage, interfere with, secretly intercept or seize any system, program, data or personal information.
f. Abuse of Newsgroups or Internet Chatrooms: Customer may not spam newsgroups or chat rooms and must comply with the written charters, rules, or terms of service for those forums. In addition, Customer may not cross-post the same or substantially similar message excessively, post binary files to non-binary groups, or flood or disrupt a group.
6. Electronic Communications. Customer may not use the Service to distribute, publish, or send unsolicited advertisements, solicitations, commercial e-mail messages or promotional messages of any kind (commonly known as “spam”). Nor may Customer use the Service to distribute, publish, or send unsolicited informational announcements, empty messages (or messages containing no substantive content), or very large messages that may disrupt a server. Collecting or harvesting email addresses from the Internet for the purpose of sending unsolicited bulk email (or to provide collected addresses to others for that purpose) is also prohibited.
7. Other Prohibited Activities. Any use of the Service that violates this Residential Use Policy or that negatively impacts network security, quality, or integrity is prohibited. Such violations include, without limitation:
a. Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems, or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of a system or network, or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system or network.
b. Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without express authorization of the owner or network.
c. Interference with Internet service to any user, host, or network, including but not limited to: mail bombing, flooding, or denial of service attacks.
d. Failing to abide by the acceptable use policies of any networks, machines, or services that are accessed through the Service.
e. Forging the header of any transmitted information packet, email, or Usenet posting.
f. Modifying or tampering with any hardware, software, or configuration provided by Elevate including but not limited to routers, switches, and cable modem configuration files.
g. Using manual or electronic means to avoid any limitations established by Elevate or attempting to gain unauthorized access to, alter, or destroy any information relating to any Elevate customer or end-user.
h. Storing any program, utility or file on Elevate servers the use of which would constitute a violation of this policy. (For example, it is a violation to store hacker scripts, IRC bots, or spamming software on Elevate servers.)
i. Disrupting, degrading or otherwise adversely affecting Elevate’s network or computer equipment owned by Elevate or other Elevate Customers.
j. Excessive use of bandwidth that, in Elevate’s sole opinion, places an unusually large burden on the Elevate Service or exceeds normal usage. Elevate has the right to impose limits on excessive bandwidth consumption via any means.
k. Assuming or assigning an Elevate IP address that was not allocated to the user by Elevate.
l. Any use of the service for non-residential purposes.
8. Security. User is solely responsible for the security of any device connected to the Service, including any data stored on that device. Users shall take all necessary steps to avoid actions that result in the abuse of a resource on their network. Examples of abuse of resources include open news servers, open SMTP servers, unsecure wireless routers, and unsecure proxy servers. If Customer is using a wireless router, Elevate requires that any wireless network be secure and encrypted. Users must take appropriate action to prevent their systems from becoming infected with and/or distributing computer viruses such as but not limited to worms, “Trojan horses,” denial-of-service attacks, and bots.
9. Network Management. Elevate uses a variety of reasonable network management tools and practices consistent with industry standards. In the event that periods of congestion necessitate such management, Elevate has available the following tools and practices (without limitation and as may be adjusted over time): (i) use of an upper limit of bandwidth allocated for uploading of files during congested periods; (ii) Subscriber Traffic Management (STM) technology to temporarily lower the priority of traffic with the greatest impact on peak congestion; (iii) spam filtering and detection techniques; and (iv) measures to protect the security and integrity of its network, resources and Customers. In limited instances if employed, these techniques may affect the throughput rate at which Customers may send and receive data, the ability of users to establish session connections within the network, or result in the delay of certain traffic during times of peak congestion.
10. Monitoring. Elevate reserves the right at any time to monitor bandwidth, usage, transmissions, and/or content on the Service. Elevate need not proactively or routinely monitor a Customer account’s use of the Service for violations of this Residential Use Policy, though it reserves the right to do so. If Elevate is alerted to violations or potential violations of this Residential Use Policy, Elevate may take whatever measures it deems necessary and appropriate to investigate, stop, and/or prevent those violations.
11. Law Enforcement and Compliance with Applicable Laws. Elevate may refer potential violations of laws to the proper authorities, may cooperate in the investigation of any suspected criminal or civil wrong, and will cooperate with authorities when required to do so by law, subpoena, or when the public safety is at stake. Elevate assumes no obligation to inform Customer that information has been provided pursuant to law enforcement, court order, or by other legal obligation. In the event that Elevate becomes aware that Customer’s use of the Service may violate a law or this Residential Use Policy, Elevate reserves the right to take all such actions appropriate to address that violation. Such action includes but is not limited to suspension of service, reduction of service resources, and termination of service. Elevate is not liable for any such responsive action and these actions are not exclusive. Elevate may take any other legal or technical action it deems appropriate.
12. Limitation of Liability; No Warranty; Indemnity. Nothing in this Residential Use Policy impairs or modifies those portions of the Agreement addressing limitation of liability, no warranty, or indemnity.
13. No Waiver. The failure by Elevate to enforce any provision of Residential Use Policy at any point in time shall not be construed as a waiver of any right to do so at any future time thereafter.
14. Revisions to Policy. Customers should regularly visit Elevate’s website and review this Residential Use Policy to ensure that their activities conform to the most recent version of the policy. In the event of a conflict between the Agreement and this Residential Use Policy, the terms of this policy will govern. Questions or concerns about this Residential Use Policy should be addressed to questions@elevatefiber.com
Open Internet Disclosure
The following policies apply to mass market broadband Internet services offered by Elevate (“Elevate” or “we”). Elevate also offers services for large businesses that are tailored to these customer needs.
It is Elevate’s policy to provide robust and reliable access to the Internet for all of its mass market end user customers. Because network resources are shared by all users, Elevate discloses and identifies the following policies govern its Internet services. These policies are designed to:
Elevate does not block access to, nor discriminate against, any lawful website or Internet application.
Customers are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the following policies which are deemed part of their Service Agreement. By using Elevate’s Internet service, the customer accepts, agrees to be bound by and to strictly adhere to, these policies. The customer also agrees to be responsible for compliance with these policies by third parties, such as friends, family members or guests that make use of the customer’s service accounts or equipment to access the network for any purpose, with or without the permission of the customer.
I. INTERNET TERMS OF SERVICE/ACCEPTABLE USE POLICIES (“AUP”) for Internet services are available at:
II. NETWORK MANAGEMENT; RELATED DEVICE AND PRIVACY POLICIES
Device Attachment Rules. With respect to Elevate’s broadband services, users may generally attach to the devices of their choice and run the applications of their choice, subject to the limitations of the terms of their service agreement and AUP. Elevate 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. All users are fully responsible for securing their equipment, including wireless routers, to prevent unauthorized access to the network by third parties and will be held fully responsible for the Actions of such third parties that gain unauthorized access to the network through unsecured end user equipment
Privacy Policy. Elevate collects personally identifiable information in order to proactively monitor network health, to troubleshoot fixed broadband service issues, and to bill for these services. Elevate does not collect any information concerning the customer’s visited websites, application usage or other Internet activity, for any other purpose in the normal course of business.
Elevate’s customer privacy policy can be found at:
Elevate’s network management practices aim to provide maximum uptime performance and minimal service interruption and only entail inspection of network traffic as may be required to identify problematic performance of the network. The Company retains and stores certain traffic information (such as the identity of the customer using a particular IP address during a specific period) for time periods required by federal or state law. The Company retains, stores and provides to law enforcement any traffic information requested pursuant to the procedures of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act ("CALEA"), the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ("FISA") or other applicable national security or criminal statutes.
The Company does not collect, store or use traffic information to profile its customers with the intent of selling or monetizing such information.
III. COMMERCIAL TERMS
Pricing. Please see elevateinternet.com/internet and elevateinternet.com/business-internet for detailed information regarding the range of broadband products offered by the company. These plans and pricing are subject to change without notice, and do not include special assemblies that may be necessary to meet unique customer situations.
Redress Options. All end users and edge providers that have questions or complaints regarding broadband service should contact the Elevate business office at (877) 687-3632 or getanswers@elevateinternet.com. (“Edge Provider” refers to any content, application, service, and device provider, which generally operates at the edge rather than the core of the network.)
If a customer believes that these open Internet rules are not being met, we encourage contact to our business office, but realize a customer has a right to file an informal complaint at the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC urges customers to submit any complaints via its website at the following address: consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us . Customers may also file a formal complaint at the FCC using Part 76 of the Commission’s rules.
IV. ISP Disclosure
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued rules requiring ISPs to disclose network management practices, performance, and commercial terms of their broadband Internet access services. Elevate’s disclosure includes information required by paragraphs 218-223 of the Restoring Internet Freedom Order.
No blocking. Elevate does not block lawful content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices.
Throttling. Elevate does not degrade or impair access to lawful Internet traffic on the basis of content, application, service, user, or use of a non-harmful device.
Affiliated Prioritization. Elevate does not directly or indirectly favor some traffic over other traffic, including through use of techniques such as traffic shaping, prioritization, or resource reservation, to benefit an affiliate.
Paid Prioritization. Elevate does not directly or indirectly favor some traffic over other traffic, including through use of techniques such as traffic shaping, prioritization, or resource reservation, in exchange for consideration, monetary or otherwise.
Congestion Management. Elevate utilizes a redundant network architecture that is designed to provide users with true broadband speeds and reliability even during times of peak usage demand. The network has been constructed to meet projected traffic demands and is fully scalable to allow for capacity to be added to meet customer needs and to support newly developing and increasingly sophisticated applications well into the future. While it is unlikely, congestion can occur on any IP network, and when it does, packets can be delayed or dropped, leading to service degradation and delays. Because core network resources are shared by all end users, Elevate has implemented a traffic management policy that is designed to ensure that all users are able to utilize their fair share of network resources during periods of high demand.
Elevate has not implemented any network congestion management practices related to its customers’ bandwidth use. However, Elevate reserves the right to implement such practices in order to deliver the best possible Internet service to its customers and to be able to otherwise reasonably manage its network. In the event such network management practices are implemented, Elevate will update this Disclosure Statement.
Application-Specific Behavior. Prioritization of packets can be used for other purposes as well, such as to ensure the reliability of applications that demand real time or near real time communications such as public safety communications and, in the context of telephone services, E-911 communications. Generally, provisioned data speeds for Elevate’s mass market services are sufficient to support such applications as Voice over IP (VoIP), gaming, web surfing, or most streaming video. However, because Elevate’s residential, mass market broadband service generally does not prioritize such traffic; it is possible that certain applications requiring real time communications may perform at less than optimal levels, especially during periods of Elevate network demand.
Elevate operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers. In addition, Elevate may identify spam and prevent its delivery to customer email accounts, detect malicious Internet traffic and prevent the distribution of viruses or other harmful code or content and use other tools and techniques that OC may be required to implement in order to meet its goal of delivering the best possible broadband Internet experience to all of its customers.
Specialized Services. Elevate currently does not provide any services that could impact its Internet access service in terms of bandwidth or service quality. If, at some point in the future Elevate begins providing such services, an update to this Disclosure Statement will be posted.
Security. We employ remote administration address filtering & Network address translation on most Elevate-owned Customer premise equipment to create a layer of network routing security as a small layer of customer protection. No other end-user security measures are taken and all security related measures are the responsibility of the end-user. Public IP addresses may be requested and users of such are responsible for all anti-hacking security.
The company’s Privacy policy statements are included within its AUP, shown above.
Performance Characteristics. Elevate provides residential and commercial mass market customers with a choice of data plans to meet their needs. Elevate also provides enterprise level Internet services that are custom tailored to the specific customer’s needs and individually priced based on the needs and criteria established by the Enterprise customer. Elevate’s Internet speeds were calculated based upon speed tests conducted within the Elevate network and cannot take into account latencies to reach any specific site beyond the network Elevate owns and controls.
Broadband Service is provided using multiple access mediums and not all service providers will perform the same.
Internet speeds within the Elevate network may be measured by performing speed tests at any of the following URLs: www.speedtest.net elevateinternet.com/internet-speed-test
While Elevate provisions its network and equipment to ensure that its customers can enjoy the speeds to which they subscribe, Internet speeds generally result from a “best effort” service and are dependent on a number of variables, many of which are outside the control of an Internet Service Provider. Due to these variables, Elevate is not responsible for Internet speeds beyond its own network. Such variables include: the age and processing capability of the user’s terminal device or computer; the number of applications running simultaneously; the presence of viruses or malware; whether the terminal equipment is connected to the network by wire or by wireless; the distance the data packets must travel between the user and the destination-website; the presence of congestion on and technical configuration of any intervening networks; any gating or congestion management schemes employed by destination-websites to limit download or upload speeds in cases where multiple users are served simultaneously. Elevate does not guarantee that a customer will achieve the speeds set forth above at all times. Rather, the foregoing data speeds represent the best information available to Elevate of the typical speeds a customer can expect to experience under normal operating conditions.
Speed tests that allow customers to test the upload, download and latency performance of their broadband data services are available free of charge from a number of sources. Generally, these tests are influenced by the same variables that affect Internet speed set forth above. Elevate hosts an internet speed test server that can be found at elevateinternet.com/internet-speed-test
to which the speed results will best represent a test of Elevate’s network performance.
Updated July 22, 2020
As the name “Elevate” suggests, we believe internet service providers should be held to a higher standard. And that includes how we handle customer information and protect customer privacy.
Elevate’s policy is simple: Unless required by law, this Privacy Policy applies and customer data stays private. This includes information about how our customers use the Elevate network, the services they subscribe to, the numbers they dial, web browsing history, app usage information, and location data. Elevate will not share, rent, or sell customer information to any third party unaffiliated with the delivery of our services. Period.
We use customer account information for internal purposes only and to communicate with you about the services you receive and related products and services available. If you don’t want communications about these products or services, opting out is easy: just let us know.
We know that our customers have options when it comes to internet service providers. Protecting your privacy makes good common sense, but also good business sense. And our Privacy Policy is just one of the many reasons we’re your trusted internet provider. Thanks for choosing Elevate.
Elevate Privacy Policy
