webengineer...Tiscali: Internet, Phone, VOIP
Tiscali was founded in January 1998 in Cagliari by Renato Soru, following the deregulation of the Italian telephone market. The company owes its name to the namesake Sardinian mountain, where there are the remains of a village Nuraghe 2000 years ago. Since March 1999 Tiscali has offered free Internet access, called Tiscali Free Net [1], and then pushing all providers to lift the Italian fixed subscription of about 200 thousand lire the year, thus contributing to the mass distribution network in Italy Internet.
In 1999, the company was listed on the Italian Stock Exchange from 2001 until 2003 the shares were also traded on the French stock exchange.
Tiscali was the first in Italy to launch the pre-selection service, and offer free calls over the Internet, thanks to software Voispring "then became" Netphone, even in this case it was still not really free calls because the customer could use these services only through a connection whereby Tiscali Tiscali Telecom received from Italy a figure very close to that expenditure to make the calls so-called "free" to the Italian landlines.
During the "Internet bubble" of 2000 the prices of Tiscali in the stock market went up enormously and enabled the company to make several acquisitions "against paper", ie offering shares of the Company to purchase the assets of the acquired businesses. From 1999 to 2003 Tiscali bought several companies in Europe: the largest transactions were the acquisitions of Liberty Surf, World Online in France and the Netherlands. The strategy was to establish a pan-European provider "in order to become an alternative to the former continental state communications companies.
For more information, please contact Salvatore Coda
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