Policies: Fair Usage Policy

Phonely's Fair Usage Policy

Last updated: January 23rd, 2024

You may only use our services for legitimate private, personal and domestic purposes. You may not use them for commercial or business purposes, unless otherwise agreed in writing.

What is a fair usage policy?

A Fair Usage Policy is a set of guidelines established by a us (Phonely) to ensure that all our users have fair and equal access to our service.

This policy helps prevent abuse, misuse, or excessive use of the service by setting reasonable limits and outlining acceptable and unacceptable behaviours.

It aims to promote fairness, maintain service quality for all users, and address any issues that may arise due to overuse or misuse of the service.

Acceptable Usage

Phonely's service is designed for use in a regular home, not for businesses or large extended families. It's made to handle the typical calling habits of most people living in a house (what we call "normal" residential use), like making regular calls.

Phonely's residential plans are only for personal use in a single home and it's not for business purposes. Only the person who owns the account, their immediate family members living in the same house and the additional numbers registered with Phonely can use these plans.

Package Specific Limits
Phonely

Outbound Calls

  • 1200 Minutes to Landline
  • 1200 Minutes to Mobile
Phonely with CallGuard

Outbound Calls

  • 1200 Minutes to Landline
  • 1200 Minutes to Mobile
Phonely with CallGuard+

Outbound Calls

  • 1200 Minutes to Landline
  • 1200 Minutes to Mobile

1200 Automatic Call Monitor Minutes*

*If you go over this by 20% for more than 1 consecutive month we reserve the right to charge you an additional 3p per minute. We will only charge you after we have given you 7 days prior notice and we will not retrospectively bill you.

Unacceptable Usage

Here is a non-exhaustive list of activities that go against this policy:

(a) Making an exceptionally high number of calls or spending an unusually long time on calls.

(b) Making a large number of calls to an unusually high number of different people.

(c) Making calls with the intention of artificially increasing the amount of traffic on our network.

(d) Making multiple calls at the same time (concurrent calls).

(e) Reselling our services to earn money or rewards, like vouchers or credit, including using services that offer "cash back" or "cash for calling."

(f) Using our services mostly for call forwarding (either international or domestic), conference calls, or directory enquiries.

(g) Using our services, or letting others use them, in a way that breaks the law, is illegal, or harms the experience of other users.

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