I don''t think you need to worry unduly about the difference between them - the point is that they are similar types of startup expenses (but basically a setup charge is a charge for setting up the connection, and an activation charge is a charge for getting it working).
It is of course Herstell-entgelt, not Hersteller-entgelt, so this is a setup charge rather than, say, an operator charge.


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