Pipex customers getting moved onto Tiscali LLU network
30th January 2008
There is stuff going on behind the scene that is causing disruption to Pipex customers as they are getting broadband outages and interruptions to their service.
This is because Tiscali, who bought 570,000 Pipex customers last year for £210 million, are migrating Pipex customers onto the Tiscali LLU network in a move that will help save Tiscali money.
Pipex customers are however not been told about the move. Cynics might say this is because Tiscali have a reputation for strict bandwidth monitoring and data allowances and naturally don't want to start losing any customers.
The Register has been digging and managed to speak to someone inside Tiscali about what is going on and was told the following:
Secret Tiscali source said: The logic is that we'll save more money placing customers on the Tiscali backhaul per month than we will lose from customers migrating away," he said.
"So far we've had our SMTP Servers replaced with Tiscali's Iron Ports and now we've been forced to replace our DNS Servers with Tiscali's.
They also hinted that there could be a full block on peer-to-peer traffic at peak times during the evening.
Author: Mark Ward Copyright: BroadbandWatchdog.co.uk - NetMediaUK.com
This is because 
The logic is that we'll save more money placing customers on the Tiscali backhaul per month than we will lose from customers migrating away," he said.
