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Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News Another potential use for the cash - and a short-cut way to grow its broadband customer base - could be acquisition of another UK operator, such as Tiscali. Fogg told silicon.com: "Clearly Tiscali appears to be up for grabs and it may be that...

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

Ofcom - high-fibre diet ordered for Broadband Britain

News Q&A: Tiscali CEO Fibre could be laid through the UK's sewer ducts to help speed up the rollout of super fast broadband to homes and businesses across the country. Telecoms regulator Ofcom has launched a review into the most financially viable ways...

Tags: telco, broadband, fibre

[16 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…

Comment As with many other ISP's, considering Tiscali offer their own IPTV service 'down the wire', they in all reality will be more jealous than anything else that people actually want to use the BBC's fantastic service - as opposed to their own under...

Tags: isp, bbc, government, outsourcing

[10 Apr 2008]

Who's on the wrong side of the UK digital divide?

News Q&A: Tiscali CEO It's several years since former Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged to have achieved "universal internet access for all who want it" in the UK. But the latest statistics from telecoms regulator Ofcom paint a picture of a growing...

Tags: ofcom, digital divide, internet

[07 Apr 2008]

BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage

News Back in August last year, Tiscali suggested content providers should pay for the upgrade of broadband networks to support the growth in online content through services such as the BBC's iPlayer. BBC tech chief, Ashley Highfield, has hit back at...

Tags: content, highfield, bbc, iplayer

[04 Apr 2008]

SAS UK boss talks SaaS, innovation and his first 90 days in the job...

Comment Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation Ian Manocha took over as managing director of SAS in the UK three months ago and has been busy putting his stamp on the company. Manocha joined SAS to run the Manchester sales office in 1996 before...

Tags: saas, consolidation, uk, sas

[02 Apr 2008]

Open source owes popularity to anti-US vibe?

News Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation Anti-US feelings are boosting the international market for open source software, according to the president and chief executive of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst - while other commentators prefer to credit...

Tags: open source, us, conference, anti

[27 Mar 2008]

PA spreads the news on open source

Case Study Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation Press Association (PA) is moving to an open source platform for its editorial content management system (CMS) to take advantage of flexibility and cost benefits.

Tags: savings, open source, media, platform

[20 Mar 2008]

BlackBerry exec on women in tech, iPhones, Facebook - and finding the off switch

Comment Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation Charmaine Eggberry is vice president and managing director of EMEA at RIM - a position that gives her responsibility for the company's growth targets in the region, expansion into new European...

Tags: women, rim, blackberry, population

[18 Mar 2008]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News At conferences where the likes of Tiscali and BT are present, you hear them say these things - 'We must move to a new tariffing scheme' - and that tells me they're working hard on this. For some time, many ISPs have been offering users what they...

Tags: broadband, iplayer, youtube, isps

[17 Mar 2008]

ITN consortium in frame for Teachers TV

News Programmes can be viewed over Sky, Virgin Media, Tiscali TV or through the service website, www.teachers.tv. A consortium led by ITN is in final negotiations over a £50m, five-year contract from the government to provide on-demand video content to...

Tags: teaching, itn, tv, public sector

[14 Mar 2008]

Women told: Tech isn't 'boring'

News Discussing the lack of women in IT with silicon.com last month, Tiscali UK CEO, Mary Turner, said IT is just part of this bigger picture. The European Commission's (EC) commissioner for information society and media, and ambassador against rip-off...

Tags: skills, geek, women, decision making

[07 Mar 2008]

Rail travellers lapping up free wi-fi

News Q&A: Tiscali CEO A free wi-fi service on the East Coast Main Line railway is proving extremely popular with passengers. Mary Turner: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation… Click here for the full Q&A Rail operator National Express has seen wi-fi...

Tags: train, railway, wi-fi, wi fi

[05 Mar 2008]

Intel and SAP cooking up treat for SMEs

News Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation Intel and SAP, the world's biggest makers of business software and microchips, will jointly offer servers pre-packaged with SAP software aimed at medium-sized firms, the two companies said.

Tags: sap, server, intel, hosted

[04 Mar 2008]

Faster speeds on the cards for Broadband Britain?

News Tiscali CEO, Mary Turner, recently told silicon.com fibre to the cabinet - aka backhaul - needs to be "commercialised" as BT is not currently obliged by Ofcom to resell it. It is also sniffing around fibre.

Tags: broadband, fibre, ofcom, high speed

[22 Feb 2008]

Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation

Comment Mary Turner heads up the operations of ISP Tiscali UK, occupying the CEO's chair since September 2003. Research conducted by the Cranfield School of Management for Tiscali found almost half (46 per cent) of SMEs surveyed feel the internet has...

Tags: bandwidth, broadband, tiscali, talking

[21 Feb 2008]

Is online TV throttling broadband networks?

News Despite its comments, Tiscali says it would not target iPlayer content for traffic shaping - possibly as it can't distinguish iPlayer content from other BBC traffic - but the issue is something the company is concerned about.

Tags: bbc, iplayer, tiscali, bandwidth

[28 Jan 2008]

Nortel Network Case Study: Tiscali Italia

whitepaper To provide Tiscali Italia with the infrastructure it needed to deliver next-generation broadband services. With end users looking to Tiscali Italia for fast, reliable triple-play, this infrastructure would need to include an efficient core network...

Tags: optical networking

[14 Jan 2008]

BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes

News In the annual JD Power and Associates 2007 UK Broadband Internet Service Provider Satisfaction Study, the company scored 626 points out of a possible 1,000 - 42 points behind the top rated Tiscali, which scored 668.

Tags: jd power, broadband, isps, customer

[06 Dec 2007]

Photos: UK WiMax rollout

Photo Pipex sold its broadband and phone division to Tiscali this year for £210m - but retained three other divisions including the now rebranded Pipex Wireless. Pipex Wireless has rebranded and will relaunch with a nationwide rollout of a WiMax network...

Tags: wireless, wimax, pipex

[05 Oct 2007]

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