Pipex sells its consumer broadband and voice division to Tiscali for £210 million.

[hazephase]

They has a downturn in the number of broadband sign ups . Thats is what to be said it the main reason for them to sell to Pipex . who is the winner Pipex , Tiscali or the users?

[philipb78]

I liked pipex, i used to have there solo account in my last house and i used to to host my very first web site many years ago! , i havent had much experience with tiscali but i'm assuming that with there backbone it should mean less problems for pipex users in the future.

[scorpiox]

That sounds good, although i dont like the TOS limits on Tiscali, they dont allow mega downlaoding stuff at certain times.

[James]

They has a downturn in the number of broadband sign ups . Thats is what to be said it the main reason for them to sell to Pipex . who is the winner Pipex , Tiscali or the users?

The winner? Tiscali. Pipex have some very loyal users and they will probably take a while before looking at anyone else. I've heard few good things about Tiscali.

[hazephase]

Let hope that it is a win - win situation for every one . Time will tell us what is the end result of the sale , do you notice that lots of big companies have been selling of late .

[James]

Let hope that it is a win - win situation for every one . Time will tell us what is the end result of the sale , do you notice that lots of big companies have been selling of late .

I have noticed that there has been a lot of consolidation in the industry recently. Part of this must be because of the sheer number of providers, but I also think that deals are going to become much cheaper soon - so they are trying to buy up loyal (and un-changing) customers.

[Alec]

Thats alot of money for a small company.

[James]

Thats alot of money for a small company.

I suppose there is a premium in here for a famously loyal user base, which in this rather volatile day and age is quite rare.

If there is a big consolidation perhaps we will see more of the niche providers being bought out.