The Perpetual Search for the Right (Inter)National ISP?

dirk asks: "We are currently in the market for a national (or even better international) ISP. We were using Prodigy, until they decided that we shouldn't be able to connect to SMTP servers other than their own (and a major function of our business is email, which must be done through our corporate mail servers). We have about 25 people who travel regularly and need to send and receive email. They connect about an hour a day. We really don't want to get each person a separate account, since their individual usage is so small. What we are looking for a national (or international) ISP who will allow us to connect to our SMTP server to send email, not cost us an arm and a leg, and allow us to have multiple people use the same account (if possible). People usually won't be on at the same time, but if they happen to coincide, we don't want someone getting booting in the middle of a session. Anyone know of anything even approaching this kind of beast?"

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1. Compuserve, works pretty well for this and is fairly inexpensive, very much international
2. A little higher scale is UUNET Pal,(its on the Compuserve network actually), again very much international
3. Ok, this one will probably get me Trolled, but YES AOL is a potential Option for you they will let you pick up mail from other SMTP servers. and there is international access.
4. AT&T Worldnet should also be considered, I do not know the full extent of the network however.
5. Agian I'll get trolled, but you could also consider MSN.