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service provider
An organization that provides some kind of communications service, storage service or processing service or any combination of the three. Examples are a local or long distance telephone company...
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Definition: service provider
An organization that provides some kind of communications service, storage service or processing service or any combination of the three. Examples are a local or long distance telephone company (see common carrier), Internet service provider (see ISP), application service provider (see ASP) and storage service provider (see SSP).
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