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    News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    Talk of synergies as Carphone Warehouse becomes the UK?s second biggest ISP.
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    Re: News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    A company with shocking customer services gets taken over by another company with shocking customer services. No really a good thing in my book.

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    Re: News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    Talk about the blind leading the blind

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    Re: News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    I don't think they can mess up my freedom2surf connection any more than tiscali already has!
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    Re: News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    Excellent stuff, now to look forward to an even worse connection for the remaining few months at home before the 3rd year of uni.

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    Re: News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    In the days of dialup I was with Lineone, who were very good but got brought out by Tiscali. Later I had broadband with Pipex who were also very good, but were brought out by Tiscali. At least now the ISP wont be brought out by Tiscali, although knowing my luck it will be brought by Sky.

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    Re: News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no more tiscali WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    party my house,,, with desent internet this time


    it cant go any lower than it is now

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    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    now that i think about the word "throttled" in a certain light... its not so far different to strangled really

    our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^

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    Re: News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    To all the Talktalk haters, how much do you pay for your connection?

    I personally regard Talktalk as a much better ISP than Tiscali, price, performance and clarity of packages.

    If you want performance, pay for it and use a decent ISP like Sky, BE etc

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    Re: News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    no im just a tiscali hater i think everyone else is better

    and im happy to move problem is dad is paying for internet and he refuses to move, since we only have 1 phone line i cant do anything
    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    now that i think about the word "throttled" in a certain light... its not so far different to strangled really

    our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^

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    Re: News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    Quote Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN View Post
    Talk about the blind leading the blind
    Thats exactly what I was gonna post!

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    Re: News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    no, wait! do two negatives make a positive?!?!?!
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    Re: News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    no, wait! do two negatives make a positive?!?!?!
    Depends if you multiply or add them

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    Re: News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    i think were adding here, since a company is buying another one
    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    now that i think about the word "throttled" in a certain light... its not so far different to strangled really

    our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^

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    Re: News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    I am a Tiscali customer and I never had problems with them. Never ever needed to use customer Services.

    They gave me good download speeds on my broadband and a cheap package (8Mbps+Unlimited phone+Line rental for £20pm ). So, I never had any problems with them.

    I dont understand why people hate them


    But, Talktalk is a pile of crap. someone I know tried to cancel after their year long contract was up and they had to write a lot of letters!

    I am disappointed that Talktalk aka CPW are taking over Tiscali. I guess my speeds will suffer now.

    Time to move to O2+BT or Virgin or Be+BT

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    Re: News - CPW acquisition for Tiscali for £236m confirmed

    Quote Originally Posted by OilSheikh View Post
    I dont understand why people hate them
    Because you appear to have been lucky. Yet despitenot having personal experience with TalkTalk you are bad mouthing them. People have similar stories of Tiscali, hence the general dislike for them

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