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  2. Service provider - Wikipedia

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    Service provider. A service provider ( SP) is an organization that provides services, such as consulting, legal, real estate, communications, storage, and processing services, to other organizations. Although a service provider can be a sub-unit of the organization that it serves, it is usually a third-party or outsourced supplier.

  3. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.

  4. Internet service provider - Wikipedia

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    An Internet service provider ( ISP) is an organization that provides a myriad of services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privately owned . Internet services typically provided by ISPs can include ...

  5. Online service provider - Wikipedia

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    An online service provider (OSP) can, for example, be an Internet service provider, an email provider, a news provider (press), an entertainment provider (music, movies), a search engine, an e-commerce site, an online banking site, a health site, an official government site, social media, a wiki, or a Usenet newsgroup. [clarification needed]

  6. Business service provider - Wikipedia

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    A business service provider is one of several categories of service provider in the business world. As opposed to an application service provider which provides application components over a computer network, the services provided by a business service provider are more in the area of infrastructure: mail delivery, building security, finance, administration, and human services.

  7. Cable television - Wikipedia

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    Cable television. A set-top box, an electronic device which cable subscribers use to connect the cable signal to their television sets. Presented unit is a Cisco RNG200N for QAM digital cable television system used in North America. Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals ...

  8. AOL - Wikipedia

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    Verizon Communications (2015–2021) Yahoo! Inc. (2021–present) Website. aol .com. AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online [1]) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by Yahoo!

  9. Hosted service provider - Wikipedia

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    A hosted service provider ( xSP) is a business that delivers a combination of traditional IT functions such as infrastructure, applications ( software as a service ), security, monitoring, storage, web development, website hosting and email, over the Internet or other wide area networks (WAN). [1] An xSP combines the abilities of an application ...