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Tiscal UK
The name tiscal is formed from a 2000 year old village situated in Sardinia, in Italy. tiscal UK forms part of tiscal SpA located in Italy.
The Italian company acquired, in quick succession, World Online (The Netherlands), Liberty Surf (France) and LineOne (UK) and subsequently launched tiscal UK during July 2001. tiscal UK also acquired Tiny and gateway ISPs. In the year 2006, Video Networks Limited has also been taken over by the company.
At present tiscal UK provides the following services In UK:
Internet access:
Both dial-up and broadband packages are offered by the company.
Dial-up Services:
Different dialup packages are offered that also include "pay-as-you-go" tariff, which the user will only be charged for their time spent online. The speed is 56K/s.
Broad band packages:
Different packages are offered depending upon the line support.
Speeds vary from 1 Mbit/s to 8 Mbit/s high-speed broadband
Telephone:
Many telephone packages including flat-rate monthly packages are offered by tiscal UK
Television:
An IPTV television service, tiscal TV (previously known as Home choice), are provided by the company in UK.
Network Services:
tiscal International Network (TINET) provides pure play carrier business delivering wholesale services such as Global IP Connectivity, MPLS lines, Voice over IP and Network Monitoring.
Web site:
The company’s website www.tiscal.co.uk provides 22 channels and over 50,000 pages of constantly updated information resources and entertainment content.
Online services from shopping to sport and money to entertainment can be accessed from the website.
The web site also provides services such as legal music downloading from a catalogue of over 1 million tracks.
A free Video Email service and a Members Area with exclusive content are other offers.
Contact Information in UK
Registered office:
tiscal UK Limited
20 Broadwick Street,
London,
W1F 8HT ("tiscal").
Registration number of tiscal UK Limited : 3408171,
(registered in England and Wales)
General Views on tiscal:
tiscal UK is one of the largest broadband service providers in the United Kingdom. The company provides broadband, dialup, telephone and now TV services to over 1.7 million customers of UK.
Although tiscal UK offers unlimited broadband packages, the company has been known to "cap" individual usage. The customers must comply with a fair usage policy intended to reduce the bandwidth required by the hosts
Also tiscal UK is said to limit peer-to-peer traffic and is a source of some discontent on tiscal UK's customers.
There is a general view that there are frequent disconnections from Windows Live Messenger and other chat/gaming applications of the tiscal services.
Spam emails are said to come from thetiscal's free web mail service although corrective actions are being made.
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