16-04-2009, 11:37
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Tiscali going down?
Seems the end could be near for Tiscali..
Their auditors, Ernst and Young are refusing to sign off on their accounts citing "fundamental uncertainties" about the future of the company.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/16/tiscali_audit/
It's a sad end for the company who bought out such pioneers as HomeChoice (who were the first ADSL based TV provider) and Pipex (who were one of the first ISPs).
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16-04-2009, 12:51
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Re: Tiscali going down?
By all accounts they have re-opened talks with Sky..... makes you wonder why Sky valued them so much lower than Tiscali wanted last time 
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16-04-2009, 17:39
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Re: Tiscali going down?
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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Seems the end could be near for Tiscali..
Their auditors, Ernst and Young are refusing to sign off on their accounts citing "fundamental uncertainties" about the future of the company.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/16/tiscali_audit/
It's a sad end for the company who bought out such pioneers as HomeChoice (who were the first ADSL based TV provider) and Pipex (who were one of the first ISPs). |
Having seen and worked on there network when they rolled out there llu i can see why. They crammed as many users as they could on to one dislam per exchange which had a 100 meg feed to it. Then they traffic shaped it to hell.
Reminds you of anyone 
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Last edited by Sirius; 16-04-2009 at 19:23.
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17-04-2009, 10:39
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Re: Tiscali going down?
Just like Virgin does then, really? (and probably every other ISP under the sun)
Not saying its a good thing, but it is reality.
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17-04-2009, 10:42
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Re: Tiscali going down?
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Just like Virgin does then, really? (and probably every other ISP under the sun)
Not saying its a good thing, but it is reality.
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I think Sirius made that point when he said "reminds you of anyone?"
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17-04-2009, 10:47
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Re: Tiscali going down?
So he did. I missed that.
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18-04-2009, 17:14
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Re: Tiscali going down?
Serves the useless buggers right, after they took over Pipex it went round down the pan.
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18-04-2009, 17:51
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Re: Tiscali going down?
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Originally Posted by Sirius
Having seen and worked on there network when they rolled out there llu i can see why. They crammed as many users as they could on to one dislam per exchange which had a 100 meg feed to it. Then they traffic shaped it to hell.
Reminds you of anyone |
Mmm.
Can I just work with that a moment.
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Having seen and worked on the network when they were rolling out 20Mbit I can see why. They had crammed as many users as they could on to one or two downstreams per multiple-thousand-homes-passed node which had 38 or 76Mbit of bandwidth. Then they STM'd it to hell.
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18-04-2009, 18:14
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Re: Tiscali going down?
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Mmm.
Can I just work with that a moment.
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Did you see this bit
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Originally Posted by Sirius
Reminds you of anyone |
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18-04-2009, 18:36
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Re: Tiscali going down?
I did, it was the inspiration!
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18-04-2009, 18:36
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Re: Tiscali going down?
Tut tut you guys, VirginMedia are the greatest Internet gimmick provider.
Who needs bandwidth and a reliable service when you have: Vsafe, free photo prints, pcguard and the list of useless gimmicks goes on 
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18-04-2009, 19:18
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Re: Tiscali going down?
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Tut tut you guys, VirginMedia are the greatest Internet gimmick provider.
Who needs bandwidth and a reliable service when you have: Vsafe, free photo prints, pcguard and the list of useless gimmicks goes on |
Just remember, you too can upload to VStuff and get STM'd doing it!
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18-04-2009, 19:52
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Re: Tiscali going down?
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Originally Posted by Broadbandings
Just remember, you too can upload to VStuff and get STM'd doing it!
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Not me m8 i be a 50 meg leeching whore
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18-04-2009, 23:16
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Re: Tiscali going down?
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Not me m8 i be a 50 meg leeching whore |
No choice but to leech, can't seed very well with that upload anyway
You forget the 'yet' too 
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18-04-2009, 23:42
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Re: Tiscali going down?
i was thinking of migrating my adsl connection over to them from titanadsl but i then saw titan's new 24meg service and i sync at 22,469 so i got away from tiscali's sinking ship.
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