visp.net Introduces The ISP Portal, The Most Advanced Turnkey Website for Internet Service Providers

ISPCON, San Francisco, CA, October 18, 2005 – visp.net today announces the newest version of its ISP Portal, a customizable solution that enables ISP’s and other organizations to offer a wide range of internet services to their customers almost instantly. Recognized for its beauty, simplicity and sleek design, visp.net’s ISP Portal enables companies to establish a compelling, private-labeled, professional ISP presence with a few clicks of the mouse.

The ISP Portal’s wide array of integrated tools provide small businesses with everything they need to set up and operate a compelling online presence with minimal effort, no additional overhead, and almost instantly-- online sign up, online payments, spam and virus filtering, subscriber self help, online payments and account management, Google Safesearch, advanced customer service and tech support.

“visp.net’s Portal has been extremely easy-to-use and the set-up was almost instantaneous,” said Tom Pentland, Marketing Director for Connecting Point. “With the ISP Portal, we’ve signed up new customers from across the country and we’re building stronger relationships with the increased amount of time they’re spending on our website.”

With visp.net’s ISP Portal, small businesses can choose from more than 12 customizable website themes that are applied with the click of a mouse. Customers receive features including, up-to-the-minute global news, local weather reports, movies and TV listings. An example of the ISP Portal can be viewed at http://template.visp.net.

“With the ISP Portal, visp.net has provided us with an extremely professional, cutting edge template that helps new users get set up quickly. ISPs with minimal internet experience can be up-and-running in minutes,” said Frank Lanzone from KCBX.net. “In addition, visp.net customer service is excellent.”

“Company executive can offer profitable ISP services faster than they can brew a pot of coffee,” said Nathan Miller, visp.net’s Chief Technology Officer. “visp.net’s ISP Portal is a turnkey ISP website solution that their customers fall in love with—its better Internet Service and homepage than what is offered by other ISPs.”

About visp.net
visp.net was the first ISP Wholesaler in North America. The company provides individuals and organizations with a turnkey solution to become a full service Internet Service Provider (ISP) or a virtual ISP (VISP). Key elements of visp.net’s solutions include: Wholesale ISP services; ISP Management software; access dozens of network providers; email, hosting & all server management; and a fully functional ISP portal.

visp.net’s wholesale ISP services are used by a wide range of industries, including: radio stations, universities, computer stores, organizations, trade groups, web designers and established ISPs across North America. visp.net offers the most complete Wholesale ISP solution on the market with a larger dial-up footprint than AOL, Earthlink and MSN combined.

visp.net is a privately held company based in Grants Pass, Oregon. The company has received numerous awards, including the local SBDC Business of the Year award and has twice been recognized by the Business Journal as one of Oregon’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies for both the 2004 and 2005 rating periods. For more information on visp.net please visit www.visp.net.

The new features of the ISP Portal include:

Configurable: Instantly make modifications to your custom portal site with options including: page layout, featured links, customizable contact options and link behavior and various design templates.
Google Safesearch: By turning on Google Safesearch each search performed will use Google’s Safesearch feature, stripping pornographic search results.
Updated News: News is updated throughout the day and pushed directly to users portal page.
Custom Logo: Create your own custom logo and use it for the portal page.
CoNew Signup Server, Pay Online and Number Search Pages: New supporting pages offer a sleek look and are much quicker, causing zero delay for users.
Customizable Packages & Services Page – Users can specify what packages and services their visitors see via a very easy to use interface at http://support.visp.net. This supports unique pricing, and unlimited number of available packages so you can customize your service offering.
Customer Customizable Location – Portal users can setup their own local zip code, in the event it differs. With this zip code, the weather, movies, and local TV listings update to the subscriber’s custom settings.
New Webmail Upgrades – The ISP Portal offers the latest version of the most powerful and flexible Webmail on the Internet.
Dialup Search – The the ISP Portal search page has been turbo-charged! With a 100% database driven backend, searches are nearly instant.

The ISP Portal is available directly from visp.net at www.visp.net or 541.955-6900. To see the ISP Portal in action, visit http://template.userservices.net.

About visp.net
visp.net was the first ISP Wholesaler in North America. Today, visp.net offers the most complete Wholesale ISP solution on the market with a larger dial-up footprint than AOL, Earthlink and MSN combined.

Shortly after the Internet was made public in 1994, visp.net became the first provider of ISP management software and wholesale Internet services including dial up and web hosting; DSL and other services were added as they became available. In 1996 visp.net coined the acronym “VISP”(Virtual Internet Service Provider), and continues to lead the industry with new technologies and more complete ISP services than any other ISP wholesaler in North America.