I would like to know
(1) the names
(2) approximate number of registered users; and
(3) URL's

of the top 3 Internet Service Providers (by number of users) in the
following countries
(1) Poland
(2) Czech Republic
(3) Hungary
(4) Slovakia

I am interested in posting online adverts on these sites and would
like to have details on advertising rates or an email address for each
ISP that I can email in English to enquire about advertising rates

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 22 Mar 2004 11:15 PST

Hi shleeman,

I am working on your question, but before I continue, I need to
clarify a few things with you:

The number of subscribers for the ISP's in their respective countries
is not always readily available. If it is available it is for the year
2000 or before.
If you would like, I can provide the three (or more) leading ISPs
(regardless of ranking) for each country.

Also, most of the ISP websites are in their native language and/or
only give general contact information.

Please let me know how you would like me to proceed.

Regards,
Rainbow~

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Clarification of Question by shleeman-ga on 23 Mar 2004 06:23 PST

Hi Rainbow

I do not necessarily need the exact numbers of users but I do want to
make sure I have the names and URLs of 3 of the large ISPs in each of
those countries.  As there have been acquisitions etc. since 2000, not
sure that stats that old will tell you who are the current ISPs.

In terms of your question on native language that is my key problem -
I wnat to find out if and how I can correspond with them in English in
order to be able to place an ad with them.

rgds

shleeman

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 23 Mar 2004 07:18 PST

Shleeman,

Just to make sure I understand your question, are you looking to
advertise on the top sites in these countries, or on the sites of the
top ISP's?

For instance, in the U.S., Yahoo is a top site, but not an ISP (at
least it wasn't last time I looked).  On the other hand, Verizon is a
top ISP, but not a top site.

Just checking to make sure I'm headed in the right direction here.

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Clarification of Question by shleeman-ga on 23 Mar 2004 12:27 PST

Good point thanks.

Looking to advertise on top traffic locally based sites (e.g. Yahoo,
msn equivalents) rather than ISPs like Verizon though of course may be
the same in these countries.

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 23 Mar 2004 12:49 PST

Just to clarify: 
Are you interested in the leading sites in terms of the most used
and/or most visited by the people of the respective countries?
Meaning, not necessarily ISPs or portals?
Rainbow~

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Clarification of Question by shleeman-ga on 24 Mar 2004 04:04 PST

I want to be able to advertise on high traffic sites.  However, it may
be for example that those sites are dating sites or news sites which
may not be suitable.  I am really after more general sites which would
probably be portals/home pages of ISPs.

Major portals (yahoo-like sites) in following countries
(1) Poland  
               >  P O L A N D
PL - 38,158,100 population - GNI p.c.US$ 4,570 ('02) - Capital: Warsaw
8,880,000 Internet users as of Dec/2002, 23.3% penetration, per ITU.
  
Arena.pl
 URL: http://szukaj.arena.pl/ - Visitas: 799
 B
Chip Online
 URL: http://www.chip.pl/ - Visitas: 438
 L
Inside Poland
 URL: http://www.insidepoland.com/ - Visitas: 516
 
Matilda Polonia
 URL: http://www.aaa.com.au/images/logos/searches/pl.shtml - Visitas: 549
 PZS
 URL: http://www.ict.pwr.wroc.pl/pzs/pzs.html - Visitas: 384   

 Wirtualna Polska
 URL: http://www.wp.pl/ - Visitas: 557
 
Wirtualny Slask
 URL: http://ws.sonik.pl/ - Visitas: 330
 
Wow!
 URL: http://www.nyc.wow.pl/ - Visitas: 419

 2) Czech Republic    
                                  CZECH REPUBLIC
CZ - 10,287,100 population - GNI p.c.US$ 5,560 ('02) - Capital: Prague
2,600,000 Internet users as of Dec/2002, 25.3% penetration, per ITU.
     
  
Inside Czech
 URL: http://www.insideczech.com/ - Visitas: 768
  

Kompas
 URL: http://kompas.seznam.cz/ - Visitas: 518    

 Msn - Atlas
 URL: http://msn.atlas.cz/ -    

Orientace
 URL: http://cz.orientation.com/eg/ - Visitas: 483
 

Seznam
 URL: http://www.seznam.cz/ - Visitas: 440
 

Uzdroje
 URL: http://www.uzdroje.cz/ - Visitas: 364
 

  (3) Hungary  
   >  H U N G A R Y
HU - 10,117,900 population - GNI p.c.US$ 5,280 ('02) - Capital: Budapest
1,600,000 Internet users as of Dec/2001, 15.8% penetration, per ITU.
60,000 Broadband subscribers as of Dec/03, per KSH - 71 ISPs (2003)

     

Heuréka
 URL: http://www.heureka.hu/ - Visitas: 440
 HuDir
 URL: http://hudir.hungary.com/ - Visitas: 326
 
Inside Hungary
 URL: http://www.insidehungary.com/ - Visitas: 345
 
Matilda Hungría
 URL: http://www.aaa.com.au/images/logos/searches/hu.shtml - Visitas: 363
 Orientation Hungría
 URL: http://hu.orientation.com/eg/ - Visitas: 332
 
(4) Slovakia 
  >>  SLOVAKIA (SLOVAK REPUBLIC) 

SK - 5,381,200 population - GNI p.c.US$ 3,950 ('02) - Capital: Bratislava
862,800 Internet users as of Dec/2002 16.0% de la poblacion, segun ITU.  

  Slovakia became an independent nation on Jan. 1, 1993, when
Czechoslovakia was dissolved.



dunco.sk/ 
hladaj.post.sk/ 
szm.sk/ 
www.best.sk/ 
www.centrum.sk/ 
www.katalog.sk/ 
www.links.sk/ 
www.mozaika.sk/mozaika.asp 
www.surf.sk/ 
www.zoznam.sk  

  
 
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   sources
     http://www.internetworldstats.com  
      http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Hosting/Directories/?il=1
      http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Statistics_and_Demographics/         

     Article of posible interest
          http://www.crmbuyer.com/perl/story/31510.html             

   Search terms
    ISP stats "Searche Engines" portals , hosting,..
   EE "Eastern Europe" Europe, polish czech,...

hedgie

The response clearly does not answer the question.  I have been given
a load of useless facts/information which I could have found myself in
5 minutes.  Defeats the point of using the service.