ISPs providing value-added services in China can be roughly divided into two categories: one is IAP, which mainly provides access services; The other is information content service provider ICP. At present, there are about 600 ISPs in China, and there are about 150 ISPs in provincial capitals and large and medium-sized cities, mainly distributed in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The more powerful ones are Capital Online 263, Beijing 169, China Net 3CNET, Reed Online, Beijing He Xun and Oriental Netscape.
Seeing these familiar names, friends must know the basic situation of ISP. Generally speaking, the website quality of Internet service providers in China needs to be improved. By 1998, there are no more than 6,000 websites providing WWW, FTP and remote login services in China, and most of them have insufficient page information, and the information update is not practical, comprehensive and timely, and the database operation function is not perfect. There is a huge gap between the number of web pages in China and the number of netizens, even the number needed. Information inquiry, dynamic communication and business services provided on the Internet are all in the primary stage. Judging from the line quality, technical level, reliability and security of services, the Internet in China can not meet the needs of the rapidly developing network economy in the future.
Since there is an ISP, it is natural to introduce ICP, so what is ICP? Simply put, ICP is a network content provider, and they will tell us how to be active online and how to get rich information.