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What is gonna happen if the giant mobile operator Vodafone acquires Tiscali, one of the biggest service providers in Europe? Vodafone is already working hard to push to the market an advanced FMC offering for the consumer and business market, hence this would surely be a strategic acquisition for them.
Moreover, Vodafone bought Tele2 Italy and Spain some time ago, too. The main advantages Vodafone would get from this further acquisition are, to me, the following:
1) Immediate access to the wide DSL customer base of Tiscali as well as their customers for telephony
2) The opposite, that is Tiscali could easily leverage the HUGE Vodafone customer base, over 170M customers
3) Integration: tight integration between VoIP, DSL access and Mobile offering.
4) While Vodafone is strong in the business market, Tiscali isn’t. A benefit for Tiscali.
5) In countries like Italy, where Tiscali’s headquarters are, a great advantage in terms of competition towards Telecom Italia and Tim.
Let’s stay tuned. People close to Vodafone told me that the first formal signs of interest have been submitted to the mobile operator already.
