service provider

1. An organization that provides services for content providers and for users of a computer network . Note: The services may include access to the computer network, content hosting , server of a private message handling system , news server , etc. [After 2382-pt.35] 2. A company, organization, administration , business, etc., that sells, administers, maintains, charges for, etc., the service . The service provider may or may not be the provider of the network. [T1.653-1996] [ ANSI T1.620-1991] 3. Relative to numbering guidelines and FCC regulations, service provider refers to a telecommunications carrier or other entity that receives numbering resources from the NANPA, a Pooling Administrator or a telecommunications carrier for the purpose of providing or establishing telecommunications service (FCC 00-104, §52.5 (i)).

A telecommunications provider that owns circuit switching equipment.