Last year, we had an ambitious agenda, and we delivered with a series of initiatives that are reshaping our position in the marketplace and redefining what it means to be an ISP. Building on the strength of our core access business, we are evolving into a total communications company that will deliver an expanding portfolio of voice, data and wireless services to residential and business customers.
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ISPs also benefit from joining the Freedom Network, Hill says, because it limits their legal liabilities. We've seen cases where users get into a flame war that ends up in a civil suit and the ISP gets dragged in, ... It's a lot easier to be able to say, 'I don't have any data on this.' It's an encrypted stream of traffic.
There are some people I can't send an e-mail to, ... At home, I have Road Runner as an ISP, and wasn't even able to remotely connect in order to manage our servers.
ISPs' rhetoric is increasingly strident about content from outside providers raising the costs of their networks. But I haven't seen hard data that suggests the volume of legitimate video is coming close to swamping ISP networks yet.
To give ISPs tools beyond the RBL, MAPS also is pursuing the idea of creating a clearinghouse, according to Nicholas. This would help control the problem of spammers who sign up with an ISP and use it for as little as a few hours to send out their messages. It's the same customers coming back over and over again to different ISPs each time, ... They know they are going to be canceled.
American companies use host services in other countries with laxer spam laws--perhaps a server farm in South America or an ISP in China. Communications between the spammer and the server can be encrypted, so the provider may not know what the server is being used for.
The problem is when an unauthorized third party, such as an ISP, puts an interception proxy between its dial-up customers and the 'Net,' ... They're imposing themselves between the end user and the content provider - two parties that expect integrity of communications.
AOL's efforts in raising awareness and understanding about good privacy and data protection on the Internet is paying off in terms of positive consumer perception. This is an especially significant accomplishment given the rash of privacy issues such as phishing and spam that impact the ISP industry.
Open access is the biggest issue. The other one, we think, is interoperability for instant messenger and ICQ. The ability for other ISPs to have instant messaging with, and that is technologically resolvable at some point in the not too distant future and AOL has pledged that they will move towards making that happen. If these two completely different services can link together and interoperate without any security problems, junk mails bombarding the chat sessions, then it would be very easy to invite other ISP customers into what would be a global and complete instant messaging system for all Internet users,
The ISP business by itself is hard to sustain, ... Only AOL is highly profitable. The days of the traditional ISP with access fees as their only revenue stream are over.
Some ISPs are very proactive, and are spending huge amounts of money combating spam. The problem is not all ISPs are doing this. A smaller group of ISPs profit from carrying spam or take no action, and those bad apples touch the rest of the ISP community.
The basic hardware profit business is under attack, ... These companies are all looking for opportunities to make money outside of the box, so to speak. It's become critical for them to take advantage of the ISP market.
Few small e-commerce software makers have been able to turn a profit in the small-business market. Bock says that with an ISP's sales channel, those small companies can change their fortunes. The tools makers are lining up to dance with the ISPs, ... Tool vendors have to have an elegant way to interface with potential clients supporting a tool through an ISP is like a hot knife through butter.
A free ISP does not create a business you can float. It is really e-commerce that can drive a business. We have to turn these customers into revenue.
Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.
The ISP market has been consolidating for a long time, ... Unless you have tremendous scale with great branding and advertising and e-commerce revenue, the only revenue these companies get is through monthly access fees. ISPs need partners.