DISQUS

Your rationalisation for Vodafone buying Tiscali is good but you'll find the other candidates all have valid reasons too.

BSkyB - Need the DSL and TV Subs to grow their base and They have LLU and can migrate all the Tiscali customers onto it which reduces the cost of the give away mentality of Tiscali to acquire customers.

Carphone - Inorganic growth to be the largest DSL supplier in the UK bigger than BT, Require IPTV and content. LLU player same as BSkyB

BT - Stay market leader, keep the revenue on the BT network rather than have them migrated to an LLU provider and Content.

Downside Tiscali has many systems which they haven't integrated since they purchased other companies and Italy run the core Tiscali OSS stack so if you split the two business' apart Italy and UK it would need a special clause for the time Italy would carry on supporting the UK.

Question is even if any of these companies buy Tiscali will they be any good at integrating their systems and customers without issues?

Carphone have no real proven ability One.Tel still hasn't been fully migrated yet purchased in 2005. AOL is being run separately and not touched purchased 2006.

BSkyB No real proven capability of integration of customers as they've really purchased companies for systesms and technology and grown their bases organically.

Vodafone - Again no real evidence of integration capability and would probably have to partner with a larger Telecoms company to do so.

BT - They have the correct formula for integration outsourced BSS/OSS to india and the company that run it do integrations for their living.