The Opelika City Council will discuss a resolution regarding Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for its forthcoming fiber-optic network system at tonight's work session.
Opelika City Council President Eddie Smith said it is important to give residents an in-house option for internet and cable services.
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“For 100-plus years, we’ve known who’s been running it,” said Smith of Opelika. “We know who to call if we have problems with services.”
When the process of establishing fiber-optic capabilities comes to fruition, the city expects to profit within a few years.
“If it goes through, at the end of five years we should be turning a profit of roughly $2 million," Smith said.
He said an honor system would be in place for those who chose the fiber-optic option.
“If you sign up for it, we expect you to use it for what it was intended for and not abuse it,” Smith said. “The Acceptable Use Policy was established to ensure nothing illegal or immoral goes on. You know what I mean. It will serve as a guideline for proper use.”
Opelika Power Services reserves the right to “temporary suspend services” if the OPS customer violates any element of AUP.
Under the Service Monitoring section of the AUP resolution, it states OPS has no obligation to monitor the services but may do so and disclose information regarding the use of the services for any reason if OPS, in its sole discretion, believes that it is reasonable to do so, including to satisfy laws, regulations or other governmental or legal requirements. OPS reserves the right to monitor the network through port scans, server transaction logs, bandwidth utilization, server resource utilization and/or access and firewall violations.
As stated under the Internet Services section of the resolution, OPS also reserves the right to enforce bandwidth allotments … if the customer has exceeded the appropriate level of Internet usage in any given month, OPS would notify the customer and additional charges would be tacked on. Acceptable Use means usage up to 10 times the average for your specific customer classification.
Notification would also be sent if an OPS customer exceeded the appropriate level of e-mail storage and would then have to agree to reduce the amount of e-mail storage or have storage caps enforced, according to the AUP.
The customer’s general identification information such as a person’s name, address, phone, e-mail and domain name is fair game for OPS to use for commercial purposes such as promoting its own products and services to said customer, according to the resolution.
In the future, if OPS customers had service complaints, they would be asked to e-mail problems to usecomplaints@ops.tv or fax to (334)705-5148 or mail to P.O. Box 2168, Opelika, AL 36803.
The work session will be held at 6:40 p.m. Immediately following the work session, the council will convene at 7 p.m. to discuss other city business.
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