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The Phone House head quarter would intend to make an new offer on the Tiscali British activities to strengthen their position on the UK broadband market.

After negotiation break with the TV satellite operator BSkyB, Tiscali still interests Carphone Warehouse, the group owner of the shop chain The Phone House. This last one which had withdrawn in 2008 from the negotiation concerning the purchase of the British portfolio of the Italian ISP provider, would henceforth intend to conclude again this acquisition.

In full turbulences, Tiscali announced in March the negociation interruption with the operator of satellite television. Tiscali hoped to benefit from about £500 million (approximately 550€ million) for the sale of his British assets, twice more than what BSkyB was ready to offer; and about enough to cover the Italian Internet Service Provider debt estimated at 600€ million.

Since then, the group obtained from banks a suspension period of its payments until they find a buyer in the United Kingdom. In this context, Charles Dunstone, the chief executive officer of Carephone Warehouse hopes to swipe Tiscali UK for a very advantageous price. The Italian operator claims 1,7 million subscribers across the Channel.

In the hypothesis of this purchase, in the internet world, the British subscribers of Tiscali would join TalkTalk, the Carphone Warehouse offer. In the main street, the joint venture Best Buy Europe between them and American Best Buy would offer the opportunity to open store in the UK before expanding into Europe.