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Blocking, Throttling, or Traffic Prioritization

Oklatel believes in an open Internet and does not engage in any practice that blocks or throttles lawful Internet content, applications, services or non-harmful devices, subject to reasonable network management. Oklatel also does not directly or indirectly prioritize some traffic over other traffic to benefit an affiliate, in exchange for consideration, monetary gain or otherwise.

Congestion Management

Oklatel adheres to reasonable network management policies that are consistent with industry standards and tries to use tools and technologies that are minimally intrusive so that very few customers are impacted by the protocols and practices Oklatel uses to manage its network.

Oklatel engineers its local facilities to meet customers’ traffic requirements. Oklatel uses network management software to conduct periodic monitoring of its network in order to determine the rate of utilization and to detect congestion and abnormal traffic flows. Oklatel manages congestion by monitoring network segment traffic flows in five minute intervals. In addition, Oklatel will add capacity to its network before utilization reaches full capacity. However, if congestion occurs some customers may temporarily experience longer download or upload times or slower surf speeds on the web.

Application-Specific Behavior

Oklatel’s network management practices are ‘application-agnostic’.

Oklatel does not:

• • block or rate-control specific protocols or protocol ports;
  • modify protocol fields in ways not prescribed by the protocol standard; or
  • otherwise inhibit or favor certain applications or classes of applications.

Device Attachment Rules

Oklatel does not have any restrictions on the types of non-harmful devices that connect to its network, nor do we have any approval procedures for doing so.

Security

Oklatel recognizes the importance of securing its network and protecting customers from network threats and annoyances. Oklatel is committed to monitoring network activity to help protect against such threats as spam, viruses, firewall issues and other harmful activity. We also encourage customers to adopt their own security practices.

As its normal practice, Oklatel does not block any protocols, content or traffic for purposes of network management. However, Oklatel may block or limit such traffic as spam, viruses, malware or denial of service attacks to protect network integrity and the security of our customers.

A customer that abuses or threatens the company’s network by violating the Internet Subscriber Agreement, will be asked to cease such conduct. Failure to do so may result in termination of service.