Carphone Warehouse buys Tiscali UK

[somanyholes]

finally

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/08/carphone_tiscali/

[Rik]

Frying pans and fires spring to mind.

[zappaDPJ]

Hmmm, I wonder if/how this will effect my court case with Poopex 

[Rik]

It shouldn't affect it, subsequent changes of ownership are not relevant.

[Gary]

Frying pans and fires spring to mind.

And that's what their users will use to try and knock sense into themselves, let alone jumping from one to the other 

[Rik]

I'd be on my way with a Mac if I could, or even a MAC.

[Gary]

I'd be on my way with a Mac if I could, or even a MAC.

Full length mac? Its raining here so I would 

[Rik]

We've had thunder and hail so far today. May is going back to winter. 

[Sebby]

I'm not sure whether to say poor Carphone Warehouse, poor Tiscali, or poor end user!

[Gary]

I'm not sure whether to say poor Carphone Warehouse, poor Tiscali, or poor end user!

Poor end user, the Carphone Warehouse are snake oil, and along with Tiscali they make great bed fellows. 

[Rik]

It's not just the headline names, of course, but people like Nildram as well.

[Glenn]

F2S too along with many others

[Sebby]

Pipex, Entanet, Eclipse...

[Rik]

I didn't realise Enta were involved.

[Sebby]

Sorry, I thought we were just listing ISPs that have gone downhill generally!

[Rik]

Ah.

[Noreen]

Carphone Warehouse will become the largest residential provider of broadband after buying Tiscali's UK business. The telecoms company will pay £236m for Tiscali's network of 1.45 million broadband users – less than half what the debt-laden Italian company had hoped to raise when it started looking for a buyer a year ago.

Chief executive Charles Dunstone said the deal would leapfrog Carphone over BT and Virgin to give it 4.25 million users, more than a ­quarter of the domestic high-speed internet ­market. It launched its first broadband package in 2004.

"It feels like an extraordinary achievement, having not been in the residential broadband market for many years," ­Dunstone said.

Tiscali is the fifth largest internet service provider in the UK, behind BT, Virgin, Carphone and BSkyB.

Dunstone said the deal would immediately boost Carphone's profits this year, increasing earnings per share by about 10%. He hopes to achieve savings of up to £50m a year by March 2011, by moving Tiscali customers onto Carphone's high-speed network and billing platform....................

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/08/carphone-warehouse-buys-tiscali-uk

[Rik]

Glad I'm not in that stable!!  Poor old Nildram.

[Simon]

I nearly went with Nildram at one point!

[Rik]

I came to IDNet from Nildram. Things just got better after that.

[Glenn]

I came from F2S like a few here

[Rik]

There was quite a big movement across in the early days wasn't there, Glenn?

[Simon]

I came to IDNet from Nildram. Things just got better after that.

What, for Nildram? 

[Rik]

I can't speak for them, but for me, yes.

[Glenn]

There was quite a big movement across in the early days wasn't there, Glenn?

It happened when Pipex brought F2S