This is hardly a surprise! Nothing brings me more pleasure than the news that this particular ship is firmly-holed beneath the waterline and not long for this world. Never have I had the displeasure of working with a more deluded, paranoid bunch of boys and girls... Of course, by the time they do eventually go under, there won't be any customers left aboard!!

...Mine's the one with the Pipex mug in the pocket.

seriously, i hope every member of their 'support' staff dont have a problem finding another job that matches their talents

...I bailed out of Bulldog when I did!

Why pay good money to buy Tiscali when you can, sit back, watch it destroy itself, then pick over the bones when it's dead.

I'll actually be sorry to see Tiscali go. Their T.V service has fantastic on-demand channels for programs and whole series. None of the other providers even come close to the choice.

Or if they do, please let me know so I know who to run to when I abandon Tiscali like the rat I am.

bailed out when i did (8 years as a Pipex customer). The "customer care" dept when i asked for my MAC code refused to believe that as a UK subsidiary co. that they would be afected by their parent co's troubles. How naive. BTW I managed to half my monthly subscription by swotching and removed any download cap. Tiscali can shove their service. If you have any doubts, switch NOW.

I used to be a happy Pipex customer, then all of a sudden I was an unhappy Tiscali customer, I am now an ex-Tiscali customer.

who got taken over by tiscali a while ago. Generally the service 'just works'.

I wouldn't be so quick to cheer the downfall of Tiscali - it's a sign of the crazy economics of the broadband market business model.

It looks like you can't run a broadband service unless you are also offering some other service which you can make money on to offset the losses runing broadband is going to bring.

Every company that goes down means less choice. We'll be left with company a who have phorm or company b who have phorm.

Left Bulldog last year as soon as I heard they were being taken over by Tiscali. Now with Be and a happy bunny for it.

Good I hate Tiscali almost as much as I hate talktalk. May they burn in ISP hell!

gigbeeragf.pbz

Why? Didn't Pipex buy them?

Paris - Because she knows where the pipe(x) has been....

the UK ISP industry is in a shocking state as many brands have been acquired by the likes of Tiscali and others and who now rule the roost. Consumers want all for very little and these drop in centres for ISP services provide it. No value just cheap, and you now wonder why they are in dire straights.

You have only yourselves to blame UK consumers.

Good.

I know it wasn't Tiscali who made Pipex fall apart, but they own it now and I still remember my experiences of them all too well. A fantastic ISP that fell apart in a year. The only thing that really saved me problems was that then inexplicably lost my credit card number and were unable to continue charging me after I left - And I know that by the emails and letters they sent, whilst ignoring my replies.

So here's to all the Pipex salesmonkeys soon to make their way to the dole queue in the middle of a recession. If I had a blower and some party poppers I'd set them off now. In fact, the sound of a party blower is what I'm going to hear in my head when I finally read they've gone belly up.

Signed up to these b**tards to be told I'll have broadband in two weeks, a month and half later with no service in sight cancelled my order and subscribed to another ISP, three months later they send me a bill for a service they never provided, I never paid offcourse.

I'm very much enjoying watching these bunch of cowboys self-destruct. They took over numerous well run and profitable ISPs, outsourced practically everything and pummelled them to fit into the Tiscali collective. They are responsible for putting hundreds of UK based staff out of work while simultaneously providing a rubbish service to their customers all while running their businness into the ground.

Paris - because Tiscali make her look clever

I've been with Nildram for quite a few years now and have been on the edge of jumping ship since Tiscali acquired them, through Pipex. I have to say that I haven't jumped ship because my connection has remained stable, I get 6Mb on downloads, I can get full bandwidth on torrents at any time of the day and I can't be arsed with the hassle of changing an email address I've had for 7 years or so.

I really wish someone decent would buy some of the subsidiaries or Nildram could find it's way to being independent again (whcih of course it won't) before Tiscali really does go tits up.

Tiscali systematically bought up smaller ISP's and set about ruining them.

What goes around comes around Karma :)

I like the way this story is shown on the front page with an MS Office logo. Is El Reg trying to tell us something?

Please tell me Microsoft are about to go titsup as well as Tiscali?

They sorted my phone problem out quickly and I have never had any problems with the broadband.