Section 4B: Terms & Conditions / Warranty 210
Phone Activation Fee. You may be required to pay a non-refundable phone
activation fee when you activate a new Number, have us switch a Number to a
different phone, have your current Number changed, we activate a different
phone on your existing account or your Service Plan says so.
Charges. For most forms of wireless Service, your usage will be charged from the
time you first initiate contact between your phone or other wireless device and
the network until the network connection is broken, whether or not you are
successful in connecting with the service with which you seek to connect, even if
the connection is later broken or dropped. An exception is that you are not
charged for voice calls that are not completed. You are charged for completed
calls to your Number from the time shortly before the phone starts ringing until
the call is terminated. You will be charged peak rates for the entire duration of
calls initiated during the peak time periods applicable to your Service. You will be
charged off-peak rates for the entire duration of calls initiated during the off-peak
time periods applicable to your Service. In addition to these usage charges, you
may be charged for recurring monthly service charges, applicable local and long-
distance toll charges, other usage charges, (including voicemail access, call
waiting, call forwarding, etc.), connection fees, roaming charges, directory
assistance, call completion charges, account review and management charges,
optional features you select at an extra cost, surcharges related to government
programs, and taxes. Charges for most Services are incurred in one-minute
increments, with partial minutes of use rounded up to the next highest minute.
You must pay, by each invoice due date, all charges for Services provided to the
Number for each phone or other equipment that our records show you activated,
no matter who actually uses or has possession of the phone or other equipment at
the time Services are provided.
PCS Vision (Third Generation) Wireless Charges. For PCS Vision wireless
services, you will be charged on a per kilobyte basis for data used, rather than for
airtime used. As long as your PCS Vision device is connected to the Sprint
Nationwide PCS Network ("PCS Vision network"), you will be incurring data usage
charges. You are responsible for all data activity from and directed to your PCS
Phone, regardless of who initiates the activity. We will invoice you for all data
directed to the internet address (or "IP address") assigned to your device in a given
PCS Vision session, regardless of whether your device actually receives the data.
You will be charged for data usage initiated by others as well as those you initiate.
You will be charged for additional data used in transporting and routing on the
network. You will be charged for partial and interrupted data downloads or other
use, including re-sent data, and for unsuccessful attempts to reach websites and
use other applications and services, including those resulting from dropped
network connections. If you use a Premium Service (including services provided
by third parties but for which you are billed on your PCS Invoice), you will be
charged for data used in transport and routing in addition to the charge for the
Premium Service. The amount of data used and charged to you will vary widely,
depending upon the specific PCS Vision wireless application or other service you
use, the amount of data used in the specific application or service, and network
congestion and other matters. For this and other reasons, estimates of data usage -