Tessellis

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Tessellis S.p.A.
Websitewww.tessellis.it

Tessellis

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the late 1990s.[2]

History

Tiscali Campus in Sa Illetta

Tiscali S.p.A. was created in January 1998 in

telephone system.[3] The company owes its name to a Sardinian mountain at which remains of an ancient village
were found.

In 1999 the

subsidiary Tiscali Italia S.p.A.
was founded.

From March 1999 onward, Tiscali offered "Tiscali Free Net", a subscription-free

fixed
subscription fees, thus contributing to making the Internet accessible to the masses in Italy.

In November 1999 Tiscali,

Andala, which in 2000 was acquired by Hutchison Whampoa and won the tender for the award of 3G (UMTS) licenses.[4]

On 25 March 2009 Tiscali launches

ESP MVNO on the TIM network
.

In 2012 three subsidiaries were founded:

On 30 December 2021, Tiscali S.p.A. and

Linkem S.p.A. approved the project for the merger by incorporation
of Linkem Retail S.r.l. in Tiscali S.p.A.

On 27 April 2022, the

shareholders' meetings
of Tiscali and Linkem approved the merger between the two companies.

On 1 August 2022, the two companies completed the merger process: Tiscali S.p.A. integrated Linkem Retail S.r.l., with the consequent transfer of the branch to the

majority shareholder of Tiscali S.p.A. (58.60%).[5][6]

After announcing it in October 2022, on 19 January 2023 the name of the

parent company became Tessellis S.p.A., which will continue to operate under both the commercial brands Tiscali and Linkem.[1]

IPO

In October 1999 (during the

capital increase and the rest were sold by Soru. Soru made 20,240,000 Euros on the IPO. In 2012, the price per share had plummeted to 0.04 Euros.[citation needed
]

Between 2001 and 2005,

French Stock Exchange
. It was delisted from Paris Stock Exchange at the end of December 2005.

Sales

Beginning in 2004, Tiscali sold off many of its regional sub-companies to native telecommunications operators in order to focus more on prime target areas.

Services

Tiscali Europe

Each of Tiscali's regional companies offer many services, which may include

Tiscali TV was acquired by TalkTalk
in 2009.

Tiscali Group

Tiscali's former carrier company,

Tiscali International Network, was a pure-play carrier business delivering wholesale services including Global IP Connectivity, MPLS lines, Voice over IP and Network Monitoring.[citation needed] In May 2009, its IP/MPLS backbone counted 90 Points of Presence and extended over 17 European countries and across the United States and Hong Kong. Its Autonomous System (AS3257) was a core ASN in the global Internet routing table, as well as the largest IPv6 backbone outside Asia. The network was sold to the Italian private equity firm BS Private Equity SpA on 27 May 2009, and renamed Tinet.[15]

Tiscali ran similar

chat, radio, TV guide, streaming TV
channels and others.

Tiscali published a self-branded

dial-up Internet packages. The browser used the core of Microsoft's Internet Explorer
browser to display web pages. Distribution of the software ended during Tiscali's corporate rebranding in 2004.

Tiscali offered dial-up Internet access in Finland under service name Surfeu.

Tiscali Campus in Cagliari had 1,000 employees as of early 2013. The center includes a development division for Internet technologies. Researchers working there included Antonio Tuzzi (one of the developers of Apple's macOS), Luca Manunza (inventor of the first Webmail service), and Domenico Dato (developer of Arianna, the first Italian search engine).[19]

Financial and economic data

On 31 December 2020 it had 530 direct employees, and 5,199,124,915 common shares. Customers include about 673,000 households and companies.[20] In 2021 shareholders of Tiscali included Renato Soru (6,08%) and Amsicora S.r.l. (16.65%).[21]

See also

  • Tiscali Italia
  • Tiscali International Network
  • Tiscali Mobile
  • Tiscali TV
  • Tiscali UK

References

  1. ^ a b "Tiscali Group announces new holding company name, Tessellis" (PDF). www.tiscali.com. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Profile - Tiscali Investors". www.tiscali.com. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  3. ^ "History - Tiscali Investors". www.tiscali.com. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Hutchison Whampoa Limited - Media Center > Press Releases".
  5. ^ "The new Tiscali is born: the business plan has been endorsed by the banking institutions and will be implemented starting from August 1st, 2022, overcoming the certified plan pursuant to section 67 of the Italian Bankruptcy Law" (PDF). www.tiscali.com. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  6. ^ bebeez (27 April 2022). "Linkem Retail and Tiscali's general meetings approve the announced merger of Linkem's newco in the Milan-listed tlc". BeBeez. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  7. ^ "Telecompaper". www.telecompaper.com. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  8. ^ Tiscali - 2004 milestones.
  9. ^ "Financial Press: Press Releases". 5 April 2005. Retrieved 6 August 2019. Telecom Italia to acquire Liberty Surf from Tiscali
  10. ^ "Tiscali - Disposal of B2C activities in Germany".
  11. ^ "Financial Press: Press Releases". 5 February 2007. Retrieved 6 August 2019. Disposal of B2B activities in Germany to Ecotel Communication AG
  12. ^ "Financial Press: Press Releases". 19 June 2007. Retrieved 6 August 2019. Tiscali: Completed the disposal of Dutch assets to KPN.
  13. ^ "Tiscali to focus on UK, Italy; plans net profit from 2008". 11 October 2006. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  14. ^ O'Shea, Dan (4 January 2009). "Tiscali powers down IPTV service". Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  15. ^ a b Miller, Ilissa (26 May 2009). "Tiscali International Network acquisition concluded by BS Private Equity". Cagliari, Milano: Business Wire. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  16. ^ "UPDATE 1-Carphone wins EU approval for Tiscali UK buy". Reuters. 30 June 2009. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  17. ^ Laughlin, Andrew (1 July 2010). "Tiscali TV rebrands as TalkTalk". Digital Spy. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  18. ^ "Tiscali shareholders approve new board, share issue". 17 February 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  19. ^ Castellano, Guido (23 February 2013). "Silicon Valley? No, Sardegna con Tiscali e il web made in italy". Panorama (in Italian). Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  20. ^ "Company Profile". borsaitaliana.it. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  21. ^ "Corporate governance". 1 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.

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