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5 unusual facts about Internet service


CARNet

CARNet's activities can be divided in three basic areas: Internet service provision, encouragement of information society development and education for the new era.

Erol Onaran

Erol's Internet offered unlimited access to the then very basic internet for a flat monthly fee, as opposed to the "by the hour" model employed by larger Internet Service Providers such as America Online (AOL) and CompuServe.

Metallica v. Napster, Inc.

Napster was a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service, founded by Shawn Fanning, that emphasized sharing digitally encoded music as MP3 audio files.

Salamfone

Currently, they use 010 base 6XXX XXX.Salamfone also expected to introduce their 3G Internet service next month.

Telecommunications in Saudi Arabia

There are huge public complaints about the poor Internet services in Saudi Arabia all of which falls on deaf ears since there is no reason or force pressuring the monopoly.



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Ali Abdulemam

In late 2002, the government of Bahrain ordered the national internet service provider, Batelco, to block access to the site, which was hosted in the US.

Andrea Menard

In the fall of 2005, she could also be seen in television advertisements for SaskTel's Internet service.

Angul

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, or BSNL, as well as private enterprises, among them Vodafone, Bharti Airtel, Reliance, Idea Cellular, Aircel, and Tata DoCoMo, are the leading telephone, cell phone and internet service providers in the town.

Baseball in Japan

In December 2004, SoftBank, an internet service provider, purchased the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks to help with finances in the Pacific League.

Bruno Giussani

Giussani has co-founded two Internet companies: Tinet, in 1995, the first Internet service provider in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland (then sold to Swissonline/Cablecom), and Tinext, in 2000, a software firm with offices in Switzerland and Italy, of which he is Vice-Chairman.

Campo Bom

Education, health, leisure and quality of life in the city, are references in the state, Has free Internet service available to 100% of the population.

Chester Community Charter School

Additionally, the school uses eRate funds, from the federal Universal Service Fund, to pay for phone service, Internet service, upgrading of the school's computer system firewall and to maintain the school's computer network.

CIX

CIX then grew rapidly, reaching a peak of more than 16,000 users in 1994, before starting to lose customers to the newly formed Internet service providers that offered free access to the mass market using 0845 dialup, such as Demon (which was started by Cixen Cliff Stanford, whose CIX nickname was 'Demon'), Pipex, AOL and Freeserve.

Continuous subscription service

In 1996, Synapse founders Jay S. Walker and Michael Loeb introduced the concept of continuous subscription service, which basically took the same business model used by cable television companies, internet service providers, and wireless phone companies.

DataPoint, Inc

The small computer sales company expanded into the internet service provider market in 1995, when the first commercial providers started to gain traction linking customers to the World Wide Web.

DSL filter

Internet service providers like AOL recommend changing the filters before they reach a year of service.

FLOW

FLOW a Caribbean-based Cable modem Internet service, owned by Columbus Communications

Freedom of speech in Canada

Bernard Klatt was the owner of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) named Fairview Technology Centre Ltd in Oliver, British Columbia.

GameTree.tv

In April 2011, the GameFree TV service was launched by Free, a French Internet service provider, on its high-end IPTV set-top-box called Freebox Revolution.

Hanaro

Hanaro Telecommuncations, a former internet service provider controlled by the SK Group

Hillary Ng'weno

In 1994, Amolo together with two other Kenyans, Ayisi Makatiani and Karanja Gakio, founded Africaonline one of the first internet service providers in Africa.

Ilan Ben-Dov

Except importing Samsung cellular telephones, Suny was active in the Internet service, through its controlling interest in Internet portal Tapuz People Ltd, BlogTV and iCity.

Kharagpur

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, or BSNL, as well as private enterprises, among them Vodafone, Bharti Airtel, Reliance, Idea Cellular, Aircel, and Tata DoCoMo, are the leading telephone, cell phone and internet service providers in the city.

Liquid electricity

Comcast's commercials for its "high-speed Internet" service portrayed a similar substance (a mercury-like substance that could be rubbed onto machines, shoes, or even drunk) that was used, again, for a comedy punchline.

Local telephone service

Deregulation and especially cell phones have reduced the need for local telephone services while Digital subscriber line Internet service and other services give local companies new roles in the telecommunications industry.

Media Access Project

One of the bigger cases that lead to current net neutrality rules was in 2007 when internet service provider Comcast was caught directly manipulating or blocking their subscriber’s access to the popular file sharing service BitTorrent.

Mott Community College

Scott Swedorski, founder of Tucows (The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software), a large Internet domain name reseller, and Internet service provider.

PFF National Men's Club Championship

It is sponsored by mobile phone and internet service provider Smart Communications and therefore known as the PFF–Smart National Men's Club Championship.

Roadshow Films v iiNet

This case is important in Australian copyright law because it tests copyright law changes required in the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement, and set a precedent for future law suits about the responsibility of Australian Internet service providers with regards to copyright infringement via their services.

Rob Schoeben

He and his team were in charge of Apple's applications—iLife, iWork, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, and Logic Studio – and Internet service, .Mac (later relaunched as MobileMe).

Rockcityclub

One of the original creators of MTV and co-founder of Internet service provider NetZero are listed among the company's board.

Russian Business Network

The RBN operates (or operated) on numerous Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks worldwide and resides (resided) on specific IP addresses, some of which have Spamhaus blocklist reports.

Shibin Al Kawm, Al Minufiyah

The city has several public and private schools, hospitals, a large stadium, telecommunication central office of Telecom Egypt, internet service providers, organized trade unions (medical, commercial, agriculture, engineering, etc.), athletic teams, political parties and social organizations and a chamber of commerce.

Steadfast Networks

Steadfast Networks is a Chicago, Illinois-based Internet Service Provider primarily focused on Shared Hosting, Dedicated Servers and Colocation.

Stingray Digital

Currently, operations include The Karaoke Channel, a licensed karaoke supplier and an interactive television and Internet service; Stingray Music, a licensee and distributor of re-recorded music; Stingray360, a provider of copyright cleared subscription music services for the business environment; Concert TV, a video-on-demand television service; and Galaxie and Music Choice International, two digital pay TV audio services.

Strato AG

Strato AG is an internet service provider headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Swinging Radio England

It states that the Laissez Faire became the MV Earl J. Conrad, Jr., owned by the Zapata companies which in the 1990s announced plans to turn a new Internet service called "ZAP!" into a bigger company than Yahoo!.

Terry McGuire

Akamai is an internet service that deals with Web interactions, and works to improve effective connections.

Venturi Transport Protocol

The protocol is employed by various wireless broadband internet service providers such as Verizon Wireless and Unwired (Unwired calls the Venturi Client application that provides transparent VTP connectivity the Unwired Optimizer) in order to speed up their network and to overcome latency issues.

WiBro

February 10, 2006: Telecom Italia, the dominant telephony and internet service provider in Italy, together with Korean Samsung Electronics, has demonstrated to the public a WiBro network service on the occasion of the 2006 Winter Olympics, held in Turin, with downlink speed of 10 Mbit/s and uplink speed of some hundreds of kbit/s even in movement up to 120 km/h.

Xavier Niel

In 1995, he invested in the first Internet Service Provider in France, World-NET, created the previous year by Sébastien Socchard, Philippe Langlois and Pierre Séguret.

Yupptv

YuppTV is an Atlanta-based IPTV provider, operating a Free and Subscription television service over a user's regular Internet service.