Higher ratings translate into more advertising revenue, even though Comcast gets two-thirds of its revenue as a cable-TV and Internet access provider.
It started as a small local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 25, 000-kilometer fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and an Internet access provider.
It started as a small-scale local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 16, 000-mile fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and a major Internet access provider.
It was conceived in 1995 as a proprietary service as AOL had been, then reinvented as a straight Internet access provider, then it ventured into content and online "channels, " even trying to produce Web sitcoms.
Current interpretations of the law allows law enforcement to demand your email carrier or Internet access provider turn over your email without the judicial oversight of a warrant many believe is required by the 4th Amendment.
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The authorized account holder is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address.
In Russia, government prosecutors convinced its Supreme Court last year to order an Internet provider to block access to online gambling sites, but PokerStars, like other online firms, continues to draw Russian customers from other sites.
Even PLDT, which already operates a cable-TV system and an Internet service provider, is planning to offer cable Net access, "maybe before the end of 1999, " says Samson.
If you are not sure whether you can access the internet on your device, check with your mobile network provider.
As Brazil's largest pay-TV provider and a big hitter in phone services and Internet access, NETC is a play on Brazil's growing middle class.
All told, this will give WorldCom more than 500, 000 local modem-access lines, making it the world's largest Internet-service provider.
Globo is also forging ahead on broadband Internet access through its listed subsidiary Globo Cabo, Brazil's largest cable-TV provider.
In Syria, for instance, the state-controlled service provider known as the Syrian Telecom Establishment alone controls access to the foreign Internet, a fact that made its digital shutdown in the midst of the armed conflict there relatively simple.
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