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Tiscali unbundling promises better services
Talkback I have signed up for TISCALI broadband package 7 days ago, I am informed that they are sorting tne problems out, they do not return promised phone calls, I have to phone them on premium rates. I have already paid 1 months subscription, and I will...
[June 5, 2005, 10:52]
Tiscali unbundling promises better services
Talkback Tiscali needs to get its basic business processes sorted out before it starts giving people the package lure. We are owed wrongly billed amounts going back 4 months and the only thing that keeps us with Tiscali is our large contact base who have...
[December 13, 2005, 15:35]
Tiscali boss gets the boot
Blog Tommaso Pompei has been ejected as CEO of Tiscali, to be replaced by current board member Mario Rosso. Apparently shares have risen on the news. Hard to say, but it's difficult to see this as entirely unconnected with all the rumours that have been...
[February 29, 2008, 10:57]
Tiscali's 'sell-off' plans and the media
Blog Take this FT interview with Tiscali boss Tommaso Pompei. The headline: "Tiscali boss expects to be targeted by rivals". Tiscali chief plots sell-off"; "Tiscali expected to sell UK broadband operations"; "Tiscali to sell up 'within two years'"; and...
[January 24, 2008, 16:01]
Tiscali scrambles to tackle spam
News Tiscali will take at least a week to resolve problems with its customers' emails, the ISP admitted on Wednesday. The problem arose because spammers set up free Tiscali webmail accounts and used them to send out large volumes of unsolicited emails.
[May 30, 2007, 17:32]
Tiscali unveils basic and advanced broadband products
Talkback Tiscali are probably signing 200,000 users, but it is at a cost - and to the users, as the contention ratio goes from 1:50 to more like 1:500! This is the actual speed you get from Tiscali 512 "Broadband", on a 2.2.feed line.
[April 1, 2004, 18:50]
Tiscali mulls satellite broadband
News Internet communications company Tiscali is planning to launch a satellite broadband service later this year. Denying that Tiscali would suffer from launching a year behind BT's satellite broadband service, Huet said, "We have waited -- we wanted to...
[August 22, 2002, 10:22]
Tiscali buys Liberty Surf
News Italy's Tiscali bought French Internet service provider Liberty Surf Monday in a cash and stock deal valued at 900m euros (£569.5m), snapping up one of the last big prizes in the European ISP market's consolidation.
[January 8, 2001, 11:15]
Tiscali unveils basic and advanced broadband products
News Tiscali launched a new range of broadband products on Wednesday that give another shake-up to Britain's high-speed Internet access market. BT used this launch to hit out at operators such as Tiscali that sell 150Kbps 'broadband' products, but other...
[March 10, 2004, 16:30]
Tiscali broadband offers service quality for voice
News Internet service provider Tiscali has launched an ADSL service with guaranteed quality, designed to support voice-over-IP services at remote offices and allow teleworking and distributed call centres.
[March 8, 2005, 17:25]
Tiscali clinches World Online for $5.1bn
News Italian Internet Service Provider Tiscali on Thursday threw down the gauntlet to Europe's largest ISP T-Online with a 5.9bn euro (about £3bn) all share takeover of Dutch peer World Online to create Europe's second-largest ISP.
[September 8, 2000, 9:38]
Tiscali unveils basic and advanced broadband products
Talkback I have been subscribed to Tiscali 512 24/7 Boradband since July 2003 and can NOT recommend their services at all. It took 6 weeks to get the service set up, and then 2 months to get to a 400+ speed. I NEVER achieved over 450 no matter what...
[March 30, 2004, 19:49]
Tiscali snaps up Pipex's broadband
News Pipex has sold its broadband and phone division to Tiscali for £210m. The businesses being sold to Tiscali include Pipex Homecall, Pipex Internet, Switch Telecoms and Toucan Residential. Peter Dubens, executive chairman of Pipex, said Pipex is...
[July 16, 2007, 9:09]
Tiscali unbundling promises better services
News Competition in the UK broadband market moved up another notch on Thursday when Tiscali announced it was ready to offer services in competition with BT Wholesale. Tiscali has taken advantage of local-loop unbundling (LLU) to install its own...
[May 26, 2005, 17:25]
Tiscali unveils basic and advanced broadband products
Talkback I have been subscribed to Tiscali 512 24/7 Broadband since July 2003 and can NOT recommend their services at all. It took 6 weeks to get the service set up, and then 2 months to get to a 400+ speed. I NEVER achieved over 450 no matter what...
[March 30, 2004, 20:00]
Carphone Warehouse buys Tiscali for £236m
News Carphone Warehouse has agreed to buy Tiscali's UK broadband business for £236m, a move that will make it the largest domestic broadband provider in the UK. The deal, announced on Friday, puts an end to more than a year of speculation over the...
[May 8, 2009, 12:38]
BT's cheeky letter to Tiscali customers
Blog According to ISPReview, Tiscali is considering legal action over a letter BT sent to some of its customers. Tiscali's future is, of course, the focus of much speculation - I've lost track of how many times I've seen stories about this or that...
[July 17, 2008, 12:41]
BT's cheeky letter to Tiscali customers
Blog Comment hawkish of BT, the headline reads "Tiscali chief plots sell-off" they'll need to cite a good source for that, otherwise Tiscali wins on defamation!
[July 17, 2008, 18:58]
BSkyB/Tiscali deal reportedly falls through
Blog According to The Grauniad, talks between BSkyB and Tiscali over the latter's UK operations being bought by the former have hit a snag over the asking price. It seems Tiscali wanted £600m, but Sky was only willing to stump up £450m.
[December 22, 2008, 11:59]
BSkyB in talks to buy Tiscali UK
Blog Tiscali is indeed in talks to sell off its UK operations, or part thereof, and the lucky suitor is BSkyB. The line sent over from Italy today: "Tiscali clarifies that it is currently holding talks with the BSkyB Group plc in relation to certain UK...
[November 4, 2008, 16:48]
