Posted by Admin on January 11, 2010 – 5:14 pm
The Tiscali broadband brand is no more. Tiscali was taken over by giant broadband company Talk Talk in May last year and their customers have now been transferred over.
Talk Talk payed £236 million in May 2009 for Tiscali’s assets making Talk Talk the largest residential broadband provider in the UK. The company is said to be committed to providing an excellent service and best value products.
It is understood that names such as Pipex and Freedom2Surf, which are Tiscali acquisitions, will also change name and be rebranded as Talk Talk.
Posted by Admin on October 13, 2009 – 1:30 pm
Mobile broadband users are switching to fixed line services due to dissatisfaction with the speed and limited coverage of wireless internet access. Pre paid packages are also becoming more populare than long term contracts.
Smartphones which can send e-mails and access the web have also persuaded consumers to ditch their dongles. Most hotels ,airports and conference centres etc. offer faster Wi-Fi as an alternative to mobile broadband.
Carphone Warehouse has said that its Talk Talk internet service provider has reported better than expected sales of fixed line broadband in the 3 months prior to September. Undeterred by the recession Talk Talk reached its annual growth target and bought out its rival Tiscali. A spokes person said that the mobile phone thing may have peaked as people begin to realise that mobile broadband speed is much less than that on a fixed line. It is a substitute rather than supplementary.
Sales of mobile broadband had ballooned over the past 2 years and prices fell from more than £30.00 per month in 2007 to as low as £10. However interest has now wained as customers become more and more unhappy with the speed and coverage.
Sales of pay as you go mobile broadband usually rise in September as students return to University but contracts are no longer popular. Mobile broadband is now widely regarded as complementary to a fixed line not a replacement.
