Tiscali
Tiscali began unbundling exchanges in early 2006 with the intention of offering wholesale products at a cheaper cost than BT Wholesale (thus providing an incentive for ISPs to switch wholesalers and migrate their customers to Tiscali's LLU platform). Initially, Tiscali Wholesale sold LLU connections to PlusNet, but after numerous issues and very bad press, PlusNet stopped using Tiscali's LLU platform.
Since then Tiscali have been on the acquisition trail. They purchased HomeChoice in 2006 and took HomeChoice's network of 147 unbundled exchanges with them. This was to form the initial basis of the Tiscali TV platform, which launched in Autumn 2007 and has now expanded to cover 475 exchanges.
In 2007 Tiscali purchased Pipex, taking with it the userbases of Bulldog, Nildram and Freedom2Surf. In early 2008 Tiscali angered both it's own users and those of Pipex by migrating them to Tiscali's LLU and DataStream networks without informing them.
Providers using the Tiscali LLU network to provide broadband connections:
- Tiscali
- Pipex
- Bulldog - not confirmed, but it's very likely that non-ADSL2+ customers will be migrated to Tiscali
- Nildram
- Freedom2Surf
- A handful of other unknown wholesale customers