Dial-up customers consider price a more important factor when choosing an ISP as compared with their dedicated access counterparts. The limitations of dial-up access make it mandatory that customers outsource Web hosting. Those customers are likely to turn to ISPs as the preferred suppliers for such services. Dial-up customers usually consist of individuals and small businesses. An ISP's size and financial stability are more important to dedicated customers than to dial-up customers.
Dedicated customers are usually larger corporations with their own IS staff.
45Mbps Dedicated Internet access from speeds of 32Kbps up to 6Mbps. The grand total of ISPs in the U.S. and Canada has grown steadily since early 1996 from 1,447 to more than 4,009 today, according to Boardwath magazine. Access providers set up local points of presence to dial into, support users, and provide generic software and Internet services. On the other hand, content providers apply a push business concept into the ISP business environment. They collect, process, organize, index, update, and provide the data in a format usable by customers.