It was revealed last week (here) that Tiscali had stealthily begun migrating Pipex's broadband customers on to its own platform. Today a source inside one of the affected ISP's has offered up further details about the process and what it could mean for customers:


The Register goes on to report that Pipex's traffic will now be throttled (managed) by Tiscali's Cisco P-Cube bandwidth-throttling hardware in its central infrastructure, which recently caused customers a few headaches after a botched update. Mercifully perhaps, Tiscali states that the existing traffic management profiles used by related ISP's (Pipex, Nildram etc.) will still be used instead of Tiscali’s more aggressive ones.

Tiscali also intends to offer cheaper "Tiscali-type" services to Pipex’s customers sometime later this year, although most subscribers would probably rather keep their old one.