Acronym for Internet Service Provider.
An organisation whose main activity is to provide a broad range of InterNet services, usually to the retail market. Common services include DialUp connections, ADSL connections, WebServers hosting their members' WebSites, a WebProxy, Email servers, NTP servers, NNTP servers, DNS servers, FTP servers (often mirrors of software archives), games servers, ...
See also IspFlames. Compare IAP.
Without getting into nit-picks about ISP/IAP differences thankyouverymuch, here are some local (Waikato and New Zealand) ISPs. Please don't add subjective comments - that's what IspFlames is for. Unless specified otherwise, the ISPs are NZ wide (thanks to the 0867/IPNet network).
WirelessNetworking providers in Hamilton:
The following are new defunct:
There are also some international ISPs of historical note:
There is a nice map of NZ ISP connectivity at http://ispmap.co.nz/
65 pages link to ISP: