Billing Increments
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define: Billing Increments
The unit of time that is used to calculate the cost of a phone call — usually one minute, 30 seconds or six (6) seconds. Example: If a plan bills in one-minute increments and a specific phone call is 36 seconds long, the time of the call is rounded up to one minute. A plans that bills in six-second billing increments would bill that same 36-second call as a 36-second call, not a one-minute call as the previously mentioned hypothetical plan would. Calling plans that have smaller billing increments can save a customer money because of fractional charges like the hypothetical example above.
The unit of time that is used to calculate the cost of a phone call — usually one minute, 30 seconds or six (6) seconds. Example: If a plan bills in one-minute increments and a specific phone call is 36 seconds long, the time of the call is rounded up to one minute. A plans that bills in six-second billing increments would bill that same 36-second call as a 36-second call, not a one-minute call as the previously mentioned hypothetical plan would. Calling plans that have smaller billing increments can save a customer money because of fractional charges like the hypothetical example above.
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