Abstract: A plurality of service providers (110, 120, 130) provide respective services via the Internet network (140) to user terminals (150, 160). A centralized service access provider (100) includes a communication interface (210, 220) for communicating to the service providers via the Internet and for communicating to the user terminals via a further communication system (170, 180). The user terminals request services from the service providers through the access provider. The access provider includes a service access manager (230) for verifying whether a user terminal or a user of a user terminal is authorized to request a service from a service provider and only upon positive verification enables the user terminal to access the service provider, thereby relieving the respective service providers from having to authorize the user (terminal).