Dear MWSI Customer:

We would like to take this time to welcome you to our service.   We're glad you chose MWSI to be your Internet Service Provider.   We appreciate our customers and strive to provide the best service possible.   We always listen to our customers and are happy to have your input as to what you think we could do to make your experience with MWSI more pleasant and rewarding.

This page is to inform you of some of our policies to minimize problems down the road.    

E-Mail:  
All Internet accounts through MWSI come with an e-mail box that is set up at the same time your service is set up.   Your e-mail address through MWSI is yourusername@mwsi.net.  
For directions on setting up your e-mail account, please click here.


Newsgroups:

All internet accounts through MWSI come with access to our newsgroups servers.  

To set up your newsgroups please click here.

Personal Web Space:
All MWSI internet accounts come with 5MB of personal web space.  To set up your personal web space, please contact us with the name you would like to give your home page.  To create and maintain your personal web space, you will need one of the following computer programs:  

Microsoft FrontPage
Microsoft FrontPage Express (comes standard with newer Windows programs and with Microsoft Internet Explorer)


Policies:
Please visit our user policy page by clicking here.

The above page contains links to our Appropriate Use Policy and Privacy Policy pages.   It is very important that you know your rights and your responsibilities as an MWSI Internet service user.   
 

Billing:
Our billing is done on the first day of each month.  If you sign up at another time of month, you will receive a pro-rated bill for the first partial month of your service.  Your first regular bill will be sent on the first day of the next month.  Our billing is done in advance, meaning that your monthly internet bill covers your service from the current invoice date to the same day of the next month.  Annual internet invoices cover your service from your current invoice date to the same date of the next year.  For example, if you are billed on the first day of January, that bill covers your service from January first to February first.  Advance billing is standard for most ISP's.  
If you have any questions about your bills, you may visit this page, where you will find an explanation of bills and statements.

In addition to our monthly billing cycles, we offer quarterly prepayment billing, in which you pay for three months of service at a time.  Customers using the quarterly payment plan will receive a 5% discount.  We also offer annual prepayment billing, in which you pay for an entire year of service up front.    Customers who choose annual payment method will receive a 10% discount.  We also offer a two-year prepayment plan.   Customers using this plan will receive a 15% discount.  

We accept payment by check, money order or credit cards including MasterCard, Visa, Discover and American Express.  Payments may be made at our office or may be mailed to MWSI, PO BOX 56, CARTHAGE, TN 37030-0056.    We offer credit card auto-pay (automatic charge of internet bill to credit card each month).  Customers electing to pay their accounts by monthly credit card auto-pay will receive a 5% discount.  Persons paying by credit card could be responsible for a $10.00 service charge in the event that their credit is denied for any reason including, but not limited to, changes in expiration dates of card.   Persons paying by check may be assessed a $20.00 service charge on all returned checks.  You may also pay in cash at our Carthage office.  We are located at 21 Dixon Springs Hwy.   

Late Fees:
There are ten days between the billing date and the date late fees are assigned to unpaid accounts.    The late fee is $5.00.  All payments are due on the tenth.   If your payment reaches us after the late charge is added to your account and your payment is in the amount of a regular on-time payment, the late charge will be reflected on your next bill, which will be in the form of a statement.  Due dates on billing statements are printed in the second column from the left and are marked “due dates.”

For help understanding your invoice or statement, please click here, where you will find full explanations of our invoices/statements.

Late Fees for Credit Card Customers:
Persons electing to pay for your internet service with credit cards are subject to late fees in the event that the charge for your internet service is not approved.   If this occurs we will notify you by mailing out a bill requesting another form of payment.   If bill is not paid prior to the date it is considered late you will be responsible for the $5.00 late fee in addition to the $10.00 service charge for denial of credit card.

Disconnection of Service:
Service will be discontinued if payment for any month is not made in full fifteen days beyond the due date.   We do not mail out separate disconnect notices; the late notice serves as notice of disconnection.  Once your account has gone unpaid fifteen days beyond the due date, your account will be disconnected.   This means you will receive one billing / late notice via mail.  If this notice does not result in payment within fifteen days of your due date, your account will be disabled on that date.  Annual accounts will be disconnected if account is left unpaid for one month after the original billing date.   If we disconnect your Internet service due to failure to pay, service will not be continued until payment is made in full including all late charges and a $10.00 reconnection fee.  Once all of these charges have been fulfilled we can have your service continued within minutes.    Any e-mail or personal commerce lost during this time is not the responsibility of Micro Wise Solutions, Inc.  You should also know that if you are utilizing the personal web space provided with your internet service through MWSI, any and all web site information stored on our server is subject to deletion if your account is disconnected due to failure to pay.
Wireless customers who have their accounts disconnected due to failure to pay have twenty days to reconnect their service or surrender their equipment to our office.  If equipment is not surrendered voluntarily and account is not reconnected within twenty days, we will begin the repossession process with all costs being the responsibility of the customer.   
 

If payment is not made within sixty days of disconnection, unpaid accounts are turned over to our collection agency.  Once an account is turned over, a 33 1/3% service charge is automatically added to any remaining balance.  Any account which is not paid within sixty days may also be deleted from our system, meaning any e-mail stored in our servers will be deleted and, should a customer decided to reconnect at a later date, they may lose their original username. 


Cancellation of Service:
It is your responsibility to contact us and cancel your service if you choose to disconnect.  MWSI does NOT monitor our accounts and we have no way of knowing when an account is not being used regularly.  If you fail to contact us with disconnect information you will be responsible for your last bill and any late/collection charges associated with your disconnect.

Billing Problems:
If for any reason you do not receive your regular bill, please contact us as soon as possible.   We may have entered your address incorrectly in our system, the bill could have been lost in the mail, etc.   We need to know these things in order to give you the best service possible.   If you believe there has been an error in your billing, please notify us either by e-mail or phone as soon as possible so we can correct the problem.   Failure to pay your bill for any reason (including not receiving the bill and/or payment being lost in the mail) will result in late charges and possible disconnection from our service.

Service:
Our technicians and staff are happy to help in any way possible to give you satisfactory Internet service.  We appreciate and invite your input on ways you believe our service to you could be improved.  
We will walk you through the set-up of your dial-up internet service (or we will come to your location to install your wireless internet service) and will gladly answer any questions you may have concerning your service.   

We ask that you please visit our web site at for technical support, if possible, prior to calling us.   If you cannot find answers to your technical questions/problems on our site, we will be happy to help you via telephone or e-mail.   Checking the website first helps to keep our support technicians free to take your calls and reply to your e-mails in a more timely manner.  Our website also contains links for certain hardware/software products which our customers may be using, where you can obtain necessary upgrades for computer equipment.

While we will give you all the help possible, some problems are out of our control.   If your Internet connection is less than optimal due to software problems, hardware problems, etc., we are available to investigate the problem and can make recommendations as to what service your computer system may require in order to achieve a satisfactory internet connection.   If you so choose, we are also able to provide the necessary service either on site or in our office.  Your dial-up Internet connection is also dependent upon the telephone lines carrying the information to and from your computer.   If you have a poor phone connection you will be more apt to experience interruptions of your Internet service.  

If you have any problems or questions about the quality of your internet service, please e-mail us or call us at (615) 735-0440 or toll free 1-866-513-WISE.

Specials:
Micro Wise Solutions, Inc. offers specials for new users and for established users periodically.  Notices for the specials that we run for our established customers will be sent out in mass e-mailings of all MWSI customers.  If you plan to use an e-mail address other than your @mwsi.net  account, please let us know so we can direct your mail to the proper address.  Information about current specials may also be found here.

We will do our best to track the benefits of these specials ourselves but if you feel that you have been charged for a service that you should have received at a discount or free due to any special being offered, please let us know.  We will be happy to work with you to the best of our ability.  We ask that you please take time to read all rules and regulations that may be applicable for our specials in order to avoid any confusion.  Such rules will be sent along with the notification of the special being offered.  Failure to follow rules and regulations for specials could result in voiding of those specials and possible disconnection from our internet service. 

If you have any questions about our billing policies or the bills you receive, please contact us by e-mail or phone.  If you have questions or comments about your service, other services we offer; or if you have any questions or comments about/for our company- please send them to info@mwsi.net or call us at (615) 735-0440 or 1-866-513-WISE.

We look forward to serving you, and we sincerely appreciate your business. 


Thanks For Your Business,
Micro Wise Solutions, Inc.