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What Does an Answering Service Base Fee Cover?
Professional Answering Service relies on a usage based billing system that tracks your calls per tenth of a minute (6 seconds). The calls are charged per tenth of a minute so you are not charged for more than you are using. The first tenth of a minute per call is free to avoid being charged for hang ups, wrong numbers, fax machines, and solicitors. At the end of every billing cycle each tenth of a second accumulated is totaled then charged $0.90 per accumulated minute. Each invoice is consist of two parts: Usage & Base Rate. Our company charges $45 per month as a monthly base rate. But why?