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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP), also sometimes referred to as an Internet access provider (IAP), is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet. The ISP connects to its customers using a data transmission technology appropriate for delivering Internet Protocol datagrams, such as...
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AOL

In 2006, AOL shifted its strategy to build on these strengths, making its popular e-mail and AOL software, along with other services, available free to anyone with an Internet connection. AOL continues to move forward on this strategy in 2007, with...

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  • 1985

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TeliaSonera

TeliaSonera AB is the dominant telephone company and mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland. The company just launched fiber broadband in Denmark, and is also active in other countries in Northern, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Spain, with...

Date founded:

  • 2003

Orange SA

Orange is the brand used by France Télécom for its mobile network operator and Internet service provider subsidiaries. It is the fifth largest telecom operator in the world, with over 189 million customers as of 2009. The brand was created in 1994...

Date founded:

  • Apr 28, 1994

Jaring

JARING (Jaring Communications Sdn Bhd) is a Malaysian internet service provider based in Technology Park Malaysia (TPM). It was the first internet service provider in the country and was formerly owned by MIMOS Berhad. The word JARING was derived...

Date founded:

  • 1992

Bell Sympatico

Bell Internet, originally and frequently called Sympatico, is the residential internet service provider division of Bell Canada. It was affiliated with MSN. As of June 2009, Bell Internet had over 2 million subscribers in Ontario and Quebec and was...

Date founded:

  • Nov 29, 1995

PIPEX Communications

Daisy Group plc (formerly known as Freedom4 Group plc and Pipex Communications plc) is a British company that sells Internet and telecommunications services, including hosting, broadband Internet connections, and VOIP. Note: At this point "The...

Date founded:

  • 1991

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Rogers Hi-Speed Internet

Rogers Hi-Speed Internet is a broadband internet service provider in Canada, owned by Rogers Communications. Rogers previously operated under the brand names Rogers@Home, Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet, and Road Runner in Newfoundland. In 2004,...

EarthLink

EarthLink (NASDAQ: ELNK), is an Internet service provider (ISP) headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It claims 5.4 million members (2004 estimate). EarthLink provides a variety of Internet connection types, including dial-up, DSL, satellite, and...

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MindSpring

MindSpring Enterprise was a major Internet service provider which merged with EarthLink on February 4, 2000, with the company retaining the EarthLink name. In 2006, the MindSpring brand was relaunched by EarthLink as a free VoIP service, which was...

Date founded:

  • Feb 1, 1994

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IiNet

iiNet Limited (ASX: IIN) is Australia's third-largest ISP (2005/2006). Their focus is primarily on ADSL-based Internet access, using their own ADSL2+ infrastructure, and reselling Telstra ADSL1. iiNet also provides dial-up and voice services. iiNet...

Date founded:

  • 1993

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NetZero

NetZero is an Internet service provider based in Woodland Hills, California. It is a subsidiary of United Online, owner of Juno Online Services and BlueLight Internet Services. The current (2007) chairman, president, and CEO of United Online (and...

Internode Systems

Internode, founded on 8 May 1991 by Managing Director Simon Hackett, is an Australian Internet Service Provider. The company focuses primarily on ADSL-based Internet access, but also provides business-class access (Internode Business Connect), web...

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  • 1991

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BigPond

BigPond is an Australian Internet service provider and is a subsidiary of Telstra. BigPond is Australia's largest ISP, and as a subsidiary of Telstra, has a majority share of internet penetration in Australia, primarily due to Telstra owning most...

Date founded:

  • 1997

TM Net

TM Net (or commonly known as Streamyx) is an internet service provider in Malaysia. It is the dominant fixed line broadband provider in Malaysia and is a subsidiary of Malaysia's main telecomunication provider, TM Bhd. Notably TM Net offers its...

Date founded:

  • 1995

Elisa Oyj

Elisa Oyj (Elisa) is a Finnish telecommunications company founded in 1882 that was known until July 2000 as HPY. Elisa Oyj employs about 3000 people and in 2007 had revenue of about €1.57 billion. The mobile operations of Elisa were previously known...

Date founded:

  • 1882

Grapevine

Grapevine is an internet service provider based in Canberra, Australia. The organisation is jointly owned by ActewAGL, the main utility company in the region, and TransACT, a local provider of subscription TV, fixed and mobile telephony and...

Date founded:

  • 2005

XMission

XMission was the first and is one of the few remaining independent Internet Service Providers (ISP) in Utah, United States, founded in late 1993 by Pete Ashdown. Starting in 2003, the company began providing free wireless in public libraries and...

Date founded:

  • 1993

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Media Capital

Media Capital SGPS, SA, is a Portuguese media corporation founded in 1988 (still named SOCI - Sociedade de Comunicação Independente*), based in Oeiras, Lisbon. Media Capital is the most important media group in Portugal, and is one of the biggest...

Date founded:

  • 1988

TEData

TE Data S.A.E. (Arabic: المصرية لنقل البيــانات,Al mesreyyah lenakl al-bayanat ) is an Internet service provider in Egypt, established in 2001 by Telecom Egypt (Incumbent Operator of Egypt) to act as its data communications and Internet arm. TE Data...

Date founded:

  • 2001

Eftel

EFTel Ltd is an Internet Service Provider (ISPs) in Australia, with approximately 140,000 active accounts. It was established in 1999. EFTel offers a range of services including: DSL and dial-up Internet access, web hosting and telephony services -...

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PRQ

PeRiQuito AB (PRQ) is a Swedish Internet service provider and web hosting company which became famous for hosting the BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay. PRQ is owned by Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm. Since February 2009, Gottfrid Svartholm...

Karoo ISP

Karoo is an Internet Service Provider in the United Kingdom. Formed in 1996 by Kingston Communications, a subsidiary of the KCOM Group, it primarily serves consumers in Kingston upon Hull and the surrounding area. Before the introduction of...

Date founded:

  • 1996

Libya Telecom & Technology

Libya Telecom & Technology (LTT) (Arabic: ليبيا للاتصالات والتقنية‎) was established in 1997 as a Private Libyan Company. LTT is Libya's main and biggest Internet service provider (ISP) offering both dial-up and broadband Internet to customers Libya...

Date founded:

  • 1997

Freedom2surf

freedom2surf is a trading name of Pipex Internet Limited a company owned by PIPEX Communications which is engaged in business in the internet and telecommunications sector offering products such as ADSL, Webhosting, Domain Names and Wifi access to...

Date founded:

  • Jun 4, 1997

Slingshot

Slingshot is a New Zealand owned telecommunications company. Founded in 2001, it is one of the major internet service providers in New Zealand. Slingshot is a subsidiary of CallPlus Services Ltd, the majority of which is owned by Annette Presley and...

Date founded:

  • 2001

Paknet

Paknet Limited, a fully owned Subsidiary of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd, is biggest Internet Service Provider in Pakistan. Besides Internet Paknet also provides data communication services like Clear Channel data links, Frame Relay and...

STV AS

STV is Estonian cable television company founded in 1995 and located in Tallinn, Estonia. STV website

Date founded:

  • 1995

AS Starman

Starman is an Estonian cable television, VOIP telephony, and ISP company founded in 1992 and located in Tallinn. The company has been listed as SMN1T on the Tallinn Stock Exchange since 17 June 2006.

Date founded:

  • 1992

Darty

Darty, founded in 1957 by the Darty family in France, is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the UK-based KESA Electricals Plc specialising in Electrical retailing. The company has different operations across Europe, the original being in France and...

Date founded:

  • 1957

Networx-BG

Networx Bulgaria is the largest ISP in Rousse, Bulgaria. It has more than 20,000 home and business users, and runs its own fiber-optic infrastructure. The company is also in the process of building the first Wi-Fi coverage of a city in Bulgaria,...

Date founded:

  • 2000

Cavalier Telephone and TV

Cavalier is a telephone, internet, and digital television provider formed in 1998, with operations headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. It provides service to the District of Columbia, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York,...

Date founded:

  • 1998

PAETEC Holding Corp.

PAETEC Holding Corp. is a telecommunications company headquartered in Fairport, New York, USA. It was founded as the private company PaeTec Communications, Inc. in 1998 by its current CEO, Arunas A. Chesonis. In 2007 it merged with US LEC and became...

Freei

Freei (aka Freei.net, FreeInternet.com, Freei Networks Inc.) was a free Internet Service Provider from 1998-2000. In 2000, FreeInternet.com was acquired by United Online, Inc. (owner of NetZero, Juno, Classmates.com and others). In 2008, United...

Date founded:

  • Dec 1998

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Mosaic Communications

Mosaic Communications, also known as Moscom, or as Mozcom, is the first commercial internet service provider in the Philippines.

Date founded:

  • 1994

StarNet

StarNet is a Moldovan Internet service provider. Founded on 7 August 2003, the company provides Internet services via ADSL and FTTB

Date founded:

  • Aug 7, 2003
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