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access provider

[′ak‚ses prə‚vīd·ər]
(computer science)
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

access provider

An organization that lets users gain entrance to a network, typically the Internet. It generally refers to a smaller Internet service provider (ISP) rather than a UUNET or MCI, which would be called a "service provider." See ISP and service provider.
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"42 By its third question, the referring court asks, essentially, whether the fundamental rights recognised by EU law must be interpreted as precluding a court injunction prohibiting an internet service provider from allowing its customers access to a website placing protected subject-matter online without the agreement of the rightholders when that injunction does not specify the measures which that access provider must take and when that access provider can avoid incurring coercive penalties for breach of that injunction by showing that it has taken all reasonable measures.
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In today's Internet environment, it's not the speed of the computer that causes delay; it's the poky modem and network and dawdling Internet access provider, they say.
So-net is an Internet access provider with 1.2 million subscribers.
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TVA, the pay television arm of Grupo Abril, launched the first commercial Internet cable access provider in July.
Canal Plus launched its own Web site, cplus.fr, four years ago and is also partnered with its main backer, Vivendi, as majority shareholders in Internet access provider AOL France.
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