The medical credit cards also have drawn criticism for their billing terms.

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To the extent applicable, Corporate Subscription billing cycles and terms of cancellations may differ and would be governed by the terms set forth in the Corporate Subscription Purchase Order.

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The PTCO allowed DIR and the pilot agencies to a gain a greater understanding of cloud infrastructure offerings for state government and document options and issues with provider selection, pricing, access security, data security, credentialing, provisioning time frames, service levels, service remedy options, terms of use, billing models, interoperability, mobility, scalability, capacity management, provider compliance, and monitoring and licensing.

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Since all the parties to these contracts would like to tailor the contract terms to optimize their profits or minimize their costs, they have a tremendous need to customize the billing and compensation for each relationship.

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