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by Answer Rabbit on April 19th, 2006

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What is an internet access provider?

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  • by Frogger7777 on April 19th, 2006

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    A company or other origanisation
    which provides access to the Internet to businesses and/or
    consumers. An IAP purchases an Internet link from another
    company that has a direct link to the Internet and resells
    portions of that bandwidth to the general public.

    For example, an IAP may purchase a T1 link (1.544Mb/s) and
    resell that bandwidth in chunks consisting of ISDN (64Kb/s,
    128Kb/s) and analog modems (14.4Kb/s, 28.8Kb/s). The IAP's
    customer base is likely to include both businesses and
    individuals. Individual customers usually connect to the IAP
    via a modem and telephone line to a (preferably local) point
    of presence.
    ref.-dictionary.com

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