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Biscit and Netservices on Radio 4

When I looked round the net, there seemed to be an awful lot of small isps mentioning trouble with Netservices, particularly relating to MACs.

I was told that Biscit had plans to migrate all V21 users - we'd either go to them or elsewhere, but the plan was eventually no more V21.
 
Netservices shares plummeted on Wednesday Here...
They have dropped from 80p each to 14p since May and a futher 0.5p on Wednesday. It would be fun to see them drop more. Netservices, in my opinion, will not be in the market in another 12 months but Biscit may well still be as they still have their 6,000 customers. Although I won't be one of them from now on.....
 
They have dropped from 80p each to 14p since May and a futher 0.5p on Wednesday. It would be fun to see them drop more. Netservices, in my opinion, will not be in the market in another 12 months but Biscit may well still be as they still have their 6,000 customers.
Indeed, there does seem to be evidence that the walled garden is Netservices's swan song - or, rather, that they're getting EzeeDSL to sing their swan song for them. I don't doubt that Biscit is going to outlast Netservices.

However, I also suspect that EzeeDSL and 186k will outlast Netservices too. What will 186k do when Netservices gets cut off by BT? Will they keep the "EzeeDSL" brand name, or will they rebrand, so that they can still offer a new consumer broadband deal, which isn't associated in people's minds with the failure of EzeeDSL? Will this happen before or after May 2007, when BT will start charging ISP's for disconnections?

If it happens after May 2007, then I suspect that EzeeDSL will probably migrate their customers off Netservices onto another wholesale service themselves. But if it happens before May 2007, I think that EzeeDSL will run into the same problems with Netservices that V21 and Biscit are having right now.

So EzeeDSL are taking a big gamble on this one, in my opinion. Then again, although we're led to believe that 186k is much more financially stable than Netservices, on the other hand they don't yet appear to have any strongly established consumer brands. Perhaps the top man Dominic Marrocco feels he's got enough money to sink it if it all goes pear-shaped, and he can take the risk. Or perhaps he's making very sure that the risk he's exposing himself and his company to is very strictly limited.

After all, when was the last time that damages were awarded against an ISP for going offline suddenly? He can just turn round and say it's all Netservices's fault, just like V21 and Biscit are doing now. But how will they deal with questions like "you should have known this was going to happen, so why didn't you do anything about it?" What will that do for their brand image?

Still, what do I know?
 
Has anyone tried checking both companies out at companies house tos ee if they are large or small and supplying accounts ontime?
 
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Yep, here we go

Name & Registered Office:
186K LIMITED
195 NORTH STREET
LEEDS
LS7 2AA
Company No. 04937421




Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 20/10/2003

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Company Type: Private Limited Company
Nature of Business (SIC(03)):
7260 - Other computer related activities

Accounting Reference Date: 31/08
Last Accounts Made Up To: 31/08/2004 (TOTAL EXEMPTION SMALL)
Next Accounts Due: 30/06/2006 OVERDUE
Last Return Made Up To: 20/10/2006
Next Return Due: 17/11/2007

Last Members List: 20/10/2006

Previous Names:
No previous name information has been recorded over the last 20 years

If anyone else is interested in getting company details, Graydon off 1 free report http://www.freesearch.graydon.co.uk/ Obviously don't publish private information like names and addresses in the forum though, Kits has sharp claws ;)
 
There is hope for people stuck in the contract with EzeeDSL - I am getting out - you can too. Look at my other posts
 
Yep, here we go



If anyone else is interested in getting company details, Graydon off 1 free report http://www.freesearch.graydon.co.uk/ Obviously don't publish private information like names and addresses in the forum though, Kits has sharp claws ;)

LOL Mel only doing my job.

Please just a reminder as Mel said be careful of what you post in the forums it is for your protection aswell as the forums.
 
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