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Tessellis S.p.A. (formerly Tiscali S.p.A.) is an Italian telecommunications company founded in 1998 and based in Cagliari, Sardinia, that provides Internet and telecommunications services in Italy, and, previously had operations in other European Union nations through its acquisition of many smaller European Internet service providers (ISPs) in the late 1990s.
Since 2022, following the Tiscali-Linkem merger, the company has acquired full control of the retail services previously provided by Linkem (now OpNet), including the brand.
In 1999 the subsidiary Tiscali Italia was founded.
From March 1999 onward, Tiscali offered "Tiscali Free Net", a subscription-free Internet service where customers only had to pay for the time they were online. This pushed other Italian providers to repeal their Fixed telephony subscription fees, thus contributing to making the Internet accessible to the masses in Italy.
In November 1999 Tiscali, Franco Bernabè and Sanpaolo IMI founded Andala, which in 2000 was acquired by Hutchison Whampoa and won the tender for the award of 3G (UMTS) licenses.
On 25 March 2009 Tiscali launches Tiscali Mobile, an ESP MVNO on the TIM Cellular network.
In 2012 three subsidiaries were founded:
On 30 December 2021, Tiscali S.p.A. and Linkem approved the project for the merger by incorporation of Linkem Retail S.r.l. in Tiscali S.p.A.
On 27 April 2022, the shareholders' meetings of Tiscali and Linkem approved the merger between the two companies.
On 1 August 2022, the two companies completed the merger process: Tiscali S.p.A. integrated Linkem Retail S.r.l., with the consequent transfer of the branch to the subsidiary Tiscali Italia S.p.A., while Linkem S.p.A. (now OpNet S.p.A.) became the majority shareholder of Tiscali S.p.A. (58.60%).
After announcing it in October 2022, on 19 January 2023 the name of the parent company became Tessellis S.p.A., which will continue to operate under both the Brand Tiscali and Linkem.
On February 2, 2024, Wind Tre signed an agreement for the acquisition of the Asset, including the network infrastructure, of OpNet, which will be acquired 100% by Wind Tre together with all other subsidiaries, excluding Tessellis. On August 1, the transaction was completed.
Between 2001 and 2005, shares were also traded on the French Stock Exchange. It was delisted from Paris Stock Exchange at the end of December 2005.
Tiscali's former carrier company, Tiscali International Network, was a pure play carrier business delivering wholesale services including Global IP address Connectivity, MPLS lines, VoIP and network monitoring. In May 2009, its IP/MPLS Backbone network counted 90 Points of Presence and extended over 17 Europe countries and across the United States and Hong Kong. Its autonomous system (AS3257) was a core ASN in the global Internet routing table, as well as the largest IPv6 backbone outside Asia. The network was sold to the Italian private equity firm BS Private Equity on 27 May 2009, and renamed Tinet.
Tiscali ran similar for each of its countries, which include features such as Webmail, Review, news, Video, online dating, Online chat, radio, TV listings, streaming TV TV channel and others.
Tiscali published a self-branded Web browser of the same name which was distributed with its dial-up Internet packages. The browser used the core of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to display web pages. Distribution of the software ended during Tiscali's Corporation rebranding in 2004.
Tiscali offered dial-up Internet access in Finland under service name Surfeu.
Tiscali Campus in Cagliari had 1,000 employees as of early 2013. The center includes a development division for Internet technologies. Researchers working there included Antonio Tuzzi (one of the developers of Apple's macOS), Luca Manunza (inventor of the first Webmail service), and Domenico Dato (developer of Arianna, the first Italian search engine).
Designed by the Arassociati studio, the campus is a work of contemporary architecture in Cagliari and an example of public art in Italy.
It is located in the area of Sa Illetta, which was once a small island reachable only by boat, between the Cagliari pond and the State Road 195 "Sulcitana", an important artery of Southern Sardinia. Nearby is the church of San Simone, a riding school, the Ballero farm and the Porto Canale.
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