Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/2004/02/04/tiscali_racks_up_1m_broadband/
Tiscali racks up 1m broadband users
Crossing the threshold
Posted in Networks, 4th February 2004 10:23 GMT
Pan-European ISP Tiscali has notched up one million broadband punters, the company announced yesterday.
At the end of December it had 840,000 punters but with numbers growing 35,000 a week since then, the ISP has now passed what it describes as an "impressive threshold".
Yesterday, another ISP with operations in a number of European countries, Wanadoo, announced it had almost 2.5 million broadband customers.
Separately, last week Tiscali inked a deal with security outfit Symantec for punters to rent its range of anti-virus and firewall applications.
With no upfront charges, Tiscali customers in Italy, France, Germany and the UK will be able to subscribe to Norton Internet security products by paying a subscription to Tiscali on top of their usual monthly Internet usage fees.
The service - with monthly tariffs for security gear starting at £2.50 a month - is currently being trialled in the UK and should be available commercially before the end of March. ®