Last Updated: 06/18/2008

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  Douglas County Business Fiber-Optic Internet

LocalTel & NWInternet offer Fiber Internet at wide open speeds to business customers who have access to Douglas County PUD Fiber.

Your internet Speed, once on Douglas County Fiber, will dramatically increase - up to 100Mbps (mega bits per second). That is up to 1,000 times faster than dial-up, up to 100 times faster than DSL and up to 33 times faster than Cable Internet. Many of you have a second phone line just for your dial-up internet, with fiber that will no longer be necessary!
Fiber Internet**
D100 - Symmetrical Fiber Internet**  
up to 100 Mbps* download & upload speeds $39.95**
Fiber Internet From NWInternet Includes:  
  • Powerful Postini Spam Filters
  • Effective Pop-up Blockers
  • Automatic e-mail Virus Protection
  • Unlimited Users
  • 5 e-mails
  • 25 GB of Monthly Data Transfer**
  • 10MB Personal Web Space
  • Unlimited Tech Support


 
**Monthly Data Transfer Policy
All Broadband Internet Packages include a Monthly Data Transfer threshold. The threshold is the allowed amount of data that can be transferred to or from the internet to your computer or network in one month at no additional cost. LocalTel measures the transfer amount in Gigabytes.
Definition: Monthly Data Transfer
A data transfer rate (or often just data rate) is the amount of digital data that is moved from one web address to another in a given time. In general, the greater the bandwidth of a given path, the higher the data transfer rate.

Although LocalTel & NWInternet does not limit the amount of data that can be transferred we do set a Gigabyte threshold for each broadband account and bill for excess data transferred above that Gigabyte threshold.

LocalTel & NWInternet
measure the data transferred in Gigabyte monthly for each individual IP address per broadband internet account; then combines them to determine the total amount of Gigabyte used on that single account. The individual IP & total combined account Gigabyte Data Transfer amount/s will be reported on your bill the following month.

Note: All Internet accounts come with 1 IP Address. Additional IP Addresses can be purchased. However, additional IP addresses do not increase the Monthly Data Transfer Threshold on an individual internet account.

If you exceeded your total allowed threshold, your bill will also reflect a $1.00 per excess Gigabyte charge. If you buy a FatPack, the threshold amount will be increased and the excess rate will be reduced as listed in the FatPack's below.

Example: If Customer's
Monthly Data Transfer Threshold is 25 Gigabytes and the customer uses 30 Gigabytes in one month, he will be billed an additional $5.00 for the 5 Gigabytes of excess threshold usage (25GB X $1.00 = $5.00)

Exception: Customers who use multiple services from LocalTel & NWInternet will be allowed to use
1 Additional Gigabyte* of Monthly Data Transfer per month for each $10.00 billed or the package threshold amounts, whichever is greater.

Exception Example:
Customer's Pre-Tax Bill Totals $500.00, the allowed
Monthly Data Transfer threshold will be 50 Gigabyte ($500 ÷ $10 X 1Gigabyte = 50GB* threshold)
 
Will this policy affect you?  Probably not:  This policy will only affect you if you are an extremely heavy Internet user, virus infected, run a server(s), file share, download lots of movies, music, pictures or streaming audio and/or video.  If you use the internet in this way, to save money, you may want to buy a FatPack listed below.

If you do not use the Internet for these purposes this policy will likely not affect you.  For casual Internet surfing you would have to view 400,000 web pages every day or transfer 10,000,000 average sized e-mails every day for the whole month to exceed 10 Gigabytes of Monthly Data Transfer.
Note: 98% of all LocalTel & Northwest Internet Broadband Customers use less than 10 Gigabytes of Monthly Data Transfer.
Additional Packs of Monthly Data Transfer
If  you know your Monthly Data Transfer will consistently be more than your threshold and you want to save money, buy one of the FatPack's listed below.
     
FatPack 10 Additional 10 Gigabytes of Monthly Data Transfer $5.95
  FatPack 10 will add 10 Gigabytes of Monthly Data Transfer to your established Gigabyte threshold.     Example (25GB+10GB= 35GB) Monthly
 
If you exceed your total data transfer threshold and the additional 10 Gigabytes of your FatPack 10, you will be billed at a rate of
60¢ for each additional monthly Gigabyte used thereafter.

Excess billed at 60¢
per GB*

     
FatPack 20 Additional 20 Gigabytes of Monthly Data Transfer $10.95
  FatPack 20 will add 20 Gigabytes of Monthly Data Transfer to your established Gigabytes threshold.        Example (25GB+20GB= 55GB) Monthly
 
If you exceed your total data transfer threshold and the additional 20
Gigabytes of your FatPack 20, you will be billed at a rate of 55¢ for each additional monthly Gigabytes used thereafter.

Excess billed at 55¢
per GB*

     
FatPack 50 Additional 50 Gigabytes of Monthly Data Transfer $25.95
  FatPack 50 will add 50 Gigabytes of Monthly Data Transfer to your established Gigabyte threshold.       Example (25GB+50GB= 75GB) Monthly
 
If you exceed your total data transfer threshold and the additional 50
Gigabytes of your FatPack 50, you will be billed at a rate of 52¢ for each additional monthly Gigabyte used thereafter.

Excess billed at 52¢
per GB*

     
FatPack 100 Additional 100 Gigabytes of Monthly Data Transfer $50.95
  FatPack 100 will add 100 Gigabytes of Monthly Data Transfer to your established Gigabyte threshold.       Example (25GB+100GB= 125GB) Monthly
 
If you exceed your total data transfer threshold and the additional 100
Gigabytes of your FatPack 100, you will be billed at a rate of 51¢ for each additional monthly Gigabyte used thereafter.

Excess billed at 51¢
per GB*

     
FatPack 200 Additional 200 Gigabytes of Monthly Data Transfer $99.95
  FatPack 100 will add 100 Gigabytes of Monthly Data Transfer to your established Gigabyte threshold.       Example (25GB+200GB= 225GB) Monthly
 
If you exceed your total data transfer threshold and the additional 100
Gigabytes of your FatPack 100, you will be billed at a rate of 50¢ for each additional monthly Gigabyte used thereafter.

Excess billed at 50¢
per GB*

     
FatPack 500 Additional 500 Gigabytes of Monthly Data Transfer $229.95
  FatPack 500 will add 500 Gigabytes of Monthly Data Transfer to your established Gigabyte threshold.       Example (25GB+500GB= 525GB) Monthly
 
If you exceed your total data transfer threshold and the additional 500
Gigabytes of your FatPack 500, you will be billed at a rate of 46¢ for each additional monthly Gigabyte used thereafter.

Excess billed at 46¢
per GB*

*GB - Gigabyte

 
Business Installation & Activation Costs
Business Installation is by Quote Only  
Fiber Internet Activation Fee $30.00
Linksys or D-Link Firewall/Router (each) $79.95 
Linksys Wireless Firewall/Router (each) $79.95 
Additional Wireless NIC's for laptop PC (per computer) $59.95
Additional Wireless NIC's for Desktop (per computer) $49.95
Ethernet Network Card $17.95