31.   Internet service providers are likewise unfazed.

32.   Internet service providers such as America Online and Microsoft Corp. offer strict assurances they will protect the privacy of your personal information.

33.   Internet service providers, for instance, who collect signals from copper phone lines and ship them cross-country on fiber optic backbones.

34.   Internet service providers, meanwhile, are balking at being thrust into the position of enforcing the law by blocking their customers from gaming sites.

35.   Internet service providers, or ISPs, offer their customers a connection to the World Wide Web.

36.   Internet storage providers insist their facilities are as secure as any other option.

37.   Internet provider Texas.Net says unlike other DSL companies, it has a firewall built into all of its user networks.

38.   Internet providers now do not pay access charges to the local phone networks.

39.   Internet providers run their own news servers, where subscribers post messages.

40.   Internet providers, meantime, are cutting prices to entice customers to switch.