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ISP - Internet service provider. Related Terms. Short for Internet Service Provider, it refers to a company that provides Internet services, including personal and business access to the Internet. For a monthly fee, the service provider usually provides a software package, username, password and access phone number. Equipped with a modem, you can then log on to the Internet and browse the World Wide Web and USENET, and send and receive e-mail. For broadband access you typically receive the broadband modem hardware or pay a monthly fee for this equipment that is added to your ISP account billing.
Note: Many topics at this site are reduced versions of the text in The Encyclopedia of Networking and Telecommunications.. Search results will not be as extensive as a search of the book's CD-ROM. Anyone with an Internet access account and a telephone is familiar with service providers and carriers. You pay them money every month. However, service providers and carriers are broad categories. This section describes the different types of service providers and carriers and the service they offer. The early history of telecommunications in the United States was dominated by one phone company: AT&T. The ILECs (incumbent local exchange carriers) are the result of the breakup of AT&T in 1984.