Pipex Business calls in the strategy boutique News of another nail in the coffin of one of UK broadband's most venerable names reaches Vulture Central. Pipex Business, one of the remnants spun out of the Pipex group as part of its voluntary self-dismemberment, has dimmed the lights, cranked up the whalesong, and is changing its name to Vialtus (pronounced vee-altus). It …
I swear, I first read "Latinate rebranding" as "Latrinate..."
That's as may be, but, "Vialtus moves beyond 'speeds and feeds' to focus on finding solutions to business problems through a suite of managed services," tells me that Vialtus is going to focus on solving *their* business problems ("We need to make shedloads of money fast, without any investment") and play fast and loose with terms like "unlimited" (which means "extremely limited, and capped at our whim"). And when they promise you 10Mbps downstream, you should expect to see 256kbps. Unless, of course, you have already exceeded the secret bandwidth limit for the month, in which case 9.6kbps is going to be closer to the truth.
See no Evil
Hear no Evil
Speak no Evil
Screw the customer base, make as much money as possible in as short as possible time and flog the business.
Ok if somebody can translate that lot into latin it makes a good company motto.
As a "used to be happy" Pipex customer I'm happy to say I will shortly be another statistic on the "customer slippage figures".
Hope the ass@ole who started this crap looses a bundle!..
Really its just a load of people wanting money and sending the consumer off to the lowest quality late to answer can do nothing support.
They had to change the name as Pipex or Tiscali just says 'Call Centre' to me now, no techies and no point in buying their vapour products.
Anyway now we can associate vialtus with pipex and tiscali
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