Internet Services

Central Oklahoma Telephone Co. provides a variety of Internet Services to fit your needs.

ESPN 3 Now offering ESPN3.com FREE to our high-speed Internet customers! (*Excluding WildBlue customers.)




Broadband DSL

COTC offers a variety of high-speed Internet offerings for both business and residential customers.  DSL is available in all of our telephone exchange communities.


Bronze   ---   DSL   (Application)
  • Up to 1 Mbps (1,000 kbps) downstream (256 kbps upstream)
  • $39.95/month
  • FREE installation with one-year commitment or $100 month-to-month (professional DSL installation included)
  • One e-mail address included (additional are $4/month each)
  • Backup dial-up account available for $10/month
  • Perfect of music/photo downloads, 20 times faster than dial-up*

Silver   ---   DSL   (Application)
  • Up to 3 Mbps (3,000 kbps) downstream (512 kbps upstream)
  • $54.95/month
  • FREE installation with one-year commitment or $100 month-to-month (professional DSL installation included)
  • One static IP address included
  • Three e-mail addresses included (additional are $4/month each)
  • Includes backup dial-up account
  • Perfect for online TV or gaming, 60 times faster than dial-up*

Gold   ---   DSL   (Application)
  • Up to 6 Mbps (6,000 kbps) downstream (512 kbps upstream)
  • $64.95/month
  • FREE installation with one-year commitment or $100 month-to-month (professional DSL installation included)
  • One static IP address included
  • Ten e-mail addresses included (additional are $4/month each)
  • Includes backup dial-up account
  • Perfect for video chat and movie downloads, 120 times faster than dial-up*

*Approximate values are based on a 56k dial-up connection speed.

Suggested Option --- DSL Maintenance Plan
  • Covers the repair or replacement of your DSL modem and repair of the wiring and jack to your modem.
  • Covers the cost of labor and any trip charges.
  • $2.50/month
  • Requires the telephone line customer maintenance plan ($2.00/mo for residential and $2.50/mo for business)


WildBlue Satellite Internet

We offer high-speed Internet access via satellite provided by Wildblue. We sell, service, and install the equipment. Wildblue monthly service will be added to your Central Oklahoma Telephone Company monthly bill. Monthly service starts at $49.95. A one-time application fee is required. Extra fee required for pole-mount installation.

For more information see: www.wildblue.com/aboutWildblue/ or call our business office at 918-377-2241 or email staff@cotc.net

Existing customers: Wildblue Help Desk: 888-326-4304




User Services




Dial Up Internet Service

BrightNet Central Oklahoma

We provide local 56k Internet dial-up numbers to Agra, Boley, Castle, Chandler, Cushing, Davenport, Kendrick, Okemah, Paden, Prague, Sparks, Stroud, and Tryon. For a list of all towns served by BrightNet, please click here.

Helpful Links


Billing Information

We offer toll-free technical support at 800-687-0173. Support hours are 8:00am-10:00pm Monday through Friday and 10:00am-10:00pm Saturdays.

-Dial-up Account Pricing-

Plan

Hours

Price per Month

Unlimited Plan

Unlimited

$18.95

Activation Fee $15.00 (one-time fee)

One e-mail address is included with the Dial-up account.  Additional e-mail addresses are $4 each per month.

5MB of web space is included with each Dial-up account.  FrontPage extensions can be added to 5 additional MB of web space for $5 per month.

Domain Hosting is available for $20 per month.

HOMEPAGE POLICY
Normal Homepage-- No charge for files up to 5 megabytes. $1/Month/Megabyte for files larger than 5 megabyte.

Hosted Domain Homepage-- No charge for files up to 10 megabytes. $1/Month/Megabyte for files larger than 10 megabytes. Central Oklahoma Telephone will add a link from its homepage to a business' homepage at no charge if desired. Users must register their own domains with one of the Internet domain registration organizations for a fee payable directly to that organization. Domain hosting is $20/Month.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The following Terms and Conditions govern all use of software distributed by BrightNet Central Oklahoma and BrightNet Central Oklahoma services. BrightNet Central Oklahoma reserves the right to modify these Terms and Conditions from time to time. Continued use of said software or services from and after the date of any revision shall be deemed full and complete acceptance of all Terms and Conditions and applicable fees and all changes and/or modifications thereto.

Internet service is provided by BrightNet Central Oklahoma (hereinafter "Provider") for the use and enjoyment of authorized users (hereinafter "User") only. Said services may be used for lawful purposes only.

Payment by User for subscribed services shall be made monthly in advance. Provider reserves the right to change fees for services and to add or delete services at any time.

Provider's service is limited to authorized User only, is non-transferable and may not be re-sold. The Login ID, Password and E-mail address are assigned exclusively to User. Providing User's Login ID and/or Password to unauthorized persons is a violation of these Terms and Conditions. Provider assumes no responsibility for access to User's account by unauthorized persons.

Provider does not warrant that its service will be uninterrupted or error free nor does it warrant any information, software or other material accessible is free of "viruses," "corruptions" or other harmful components. Provider, its employees, its affiliates and its contractors shall be held harmless for any lost profits or direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential damages resulting from reliance upon the use of Provider's software or Provider's services.

User understands that transfer, reproduction, distribution or re-distribution of information, software or other material protected by copyright or other proprietary right, without obtaining permission of the copyright owner or rightholder, is prohibited.

User understands that the Internet contains unedited materials, some of which may be considered offensive to User. User accesses such materials at User's own risk. Provider neither exerts control over nor assumes any responsibility for User's access to any such materials.

Provider will not be responsible for any long-disctance telephone charges that the User incurs while accessing the Provider's service. This includes situations that arise from the User's not entering the correct local dial-up number or neglecting to verify that the software has installed a local dial-up number.

User agrees to abide by Provider's Acceptable use policy.

Provider acknowledges User's privacy with respect to electronic-mail (E-mail) transmissions. User acknowledges, however, Provider retains the right both to monitor its services electronically from time to time to assure compliance with these Terms and Conditions and to disclose any information necessary to comply with any law or regulation.

This agreement is subject and subordinate to all Rules and Regulations of any and all applicable governmental regulatory authorities.

In the event User violates these Terms and Conditions, Provider reserves the right to suspend or discontinue access to all or part of its service, without notice.
User will receive free technical support. The technical support desk is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
BrightNet Central Oklahoma user accounts are for individual users and the account holder therefore agrees not to share the password of the account. The account holder acknowledges that BrightNet Central Oklahoma may terminate the account after appropriate notification if the account holder does not comply.

Personal dialup unlimited accounts are for the unlimited usage of ONE person at a time only, with reasonable unlimited use. Reasonable unlimited use is defined as one person sitting at a computer using the service for a period of up to five hours per session. Reasonable unlimited use does NOT include leaving systems idle for excessive periods of time, leaving systems online for others' use as file servers, etc. BrightNet Central Oklahoma reserves the right to disconnect users if the reasonable use time periods have been exceeded.

Any use of BrightNet Central Oklahoma resources that disrupts the normal use of the system for other users is deemed to be unacceptable. Such unacceptable uses include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Using BrightNet Central Oklahoma for illegal purposes.
  • Using BrightNet Central Oklahoma to transmit threatening, obscene or harassing materials.
  • Using BrightNet Central Oklahoma to interfere with or to disrupt network user, services or equipment. Disruptions include, but are not limited to, distribution of unsolicited advertising, propagation of computer viruses or worms, and using the network to make unauthorized entry to any other machine accessible via the network.
  • Using BrightNet Central Oklahoma to post a single article or advertisement to more than ten (10) Usenet or other newsgroups, forums, email mailing lists or other similar group or lists; to post to any Usenet or other newsgroup, forum, email mailing list or other similar group or list articles which are off-topic according to the charter or other owner-published FAQ or description of the group or list; or to send unsolicited mass emailings to more than twenty-five (25) email users, if such unsolicited emailings provoke complaints from recipients.
  • Using BrightNet Central Oklahoma to transmit any material in violation of any U.S., state, or local regulation which may include but is not limited to copyrighted material, threatening, obscene, libelous, or defamatory material, or material protected by trade secret.








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