{"id":956,"date":"2012-05-30T08:25:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T07:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=956"},"modified":"2012-05-30T08:25:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T07:25:28","slug":"uk-business-isp-xifos-merges-with-perceptive-online-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/05\/uk-business-isp-xifos-merges-with-perceptive-online-limited.html","title":{"rendered":"UK Business ISP Xifos Merges with Perceptive Online Limited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two business ISPs based in the<strong> Thames Valley<\/strong> region, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xifos.net\" target=\"_blank\">Xifos<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perceptive-online.com\" target=\"_blank\">Perceptive Online<\/a>, have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to <strong>merge their businesses<\/strong>. The combined provider that results will become &#8220;<em>dedicated to providing quality Cloud based services<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But for now the two ISPs will continue to operate as separate legal entities, although customers can still benefit from access to a full range of services via both businesses. The merged business is expected to generate a <strong>turnover in excess of \u00a31.5 million<\/strong> and aims to quadruple sales within 5 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Alexander Fossa, Managing Director of Xifos, said: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>This marks an evolution for our business and our customers as we now have the ability to grow our state of the art network to support the expanded customer base and to extend our Data Centre infrastructure<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Brian Parnham, Managing Director of Perceptive, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I am looking forward to offering our combined customer base and all our new customers a first class service based on the enhanced portfolio of products that the new business will be offering. 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