It was selling Internet service for roughly the same price as other Internet service providers while throwing in a PC.
Atlanta-based EarthLink (nasdaq: ELNK - news - people ), the No. 3 Internet service provider in the U.S., is now offering wireless Internet service to not just Blackberry and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) pagers, but also to devices based on the Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) operating system and Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) PocketPC platform.
Hackers could be responsible for the outage that has continued for hours now, said Simon Hania, spokesman for Dutch Internet service provider XS4ALL Internet BV.
ViaSat's Exede Internet is a leader in satellite internet service, utilizing breakthrough technology on the highest-capacity satellite in the world to provide speeds up to 12 Mbps, and is the only Internet service in the United States that includes a Late Night Free Zone, giving customers 100% unmetered usage from 12 midnight - 5 am, each night.
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Combined with the company's innovative ground system, the new system is transforming the economics and quality of service offered by satellite Internet service.
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It offers telephone service and Internet access over 17, 000 kilometers of high-capacity fiber.
The six groups are: organizations that register country-code top level domains (such as .de, .uk or .jp, ), those that register generic top level domains (such as .com, .org and .net), commercial and business entities, intellectual property interests, Internet service providers and other providers of Internet connectivity, and registrars (the companies that register the names under which individuals or corporations wish to be known on the Web, such as www.greeneurope.org or www.ibm.com.).
Egypt, for example, had seven active Internet service providers when it was pulled off the Internet during the Arab Spring revolution there in 2011.
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There have been a flurry of announcements about legitimate services in recent months, including Sky's SkyTunes service and tie-ups between the likes of internet service provider CarphoneWarehouse and music service Napster.
"Spamhaus will resolutely continue its mission to provide reliable protection against cyber threats such as spam, malware and botnets and work with Internet service providers and organizations worldwide to create a safer internet, " the organization said in a statement.
The city already has a fiber-optic network in place, built in 1995 with the aim of luring Internet service providers to hook up citizens with low-cost Internet.
Citigroup will soon launch a similar service in co-operation with America Online, the biggest Internet service provider.
At slight extra cost, Internet service providers could offer movies and upstart phone firms could sell Internet access and teleconferences.
The Optical SMART Hub breaks new ground by functioning as a Wireless AP router changing broadband Internet service with a cable from the wall to Wi-Fi Internet connection so that all family members can enjoy wireless connection at home.
But Julian Sanchez, a research fellow at the Cato Institute who has tracked the NSL issue, says that NSLs sent to an Internet service like Google could still be used to de-anonymize Internet content when the FBI knows an IP address but not a name or other identifying details.
The acquisition further strengthens Tesco's digital entertainment offer, following the purchase of movie and TV streaming service blinkbox in 2011 and personalised internet radio service WE7 in June 2012.
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But Internet service providers who want to bundle telephony to their customers using the public Internet will have to invest heavily in bandwidth if quality is to be acceptable.
The scientists believe that, since thinly populated areas hold little incentive for commercial internet service providers, public sector investment is needed to establish a backbone of internet connections across rural Scotland.
The service will not be moderated in America, where Microsoft has 8.6m subscribers to its internet service, though the company will ask users to sign up to terms of use.
Any agreement that gives AOL the ability to sell its high-speed service via cable lines not owned by Time Warner would be a huge victory for the struggling Internet service provider.
On Monday, Internet service provider EarthLink (nasdaq: ELNK - news - people ) announced the launch of EarthLink Free Online Calling, a similar service which will be made available to the company's 1.2 million high-speed Internet customers.
He was traced by police through information from his internet service provider and arrested.
So Internet service providers "have no answer today" to protect against this type of attack.
Investigators have collected e-mails from the hard drives and from cooperating Internet service providers.
Utilities hope that other uses for power line networking could help subsidize Internet service.
Wholesale telecommunications and Internet backbone services purchased by Internet service providers would be exempt from tax.
They want to charge different amounts of money for different tiers of Internet service.
Its Voice over Internet service goes for 30% to 40% less than traditional phone rates.
All those users need fast, reliable wireless Internet service for this market to continue to thrive.
Then they contact the Internet service providers, who send letters of warning to subscribers' homes.
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