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Tiscali, new offers by 30 April: on the table the proposal of Ligurian Canarbino

Interest in a branch of the company. Meanwhile, the Region of Sardinia is also in the field: a round table has been convened to deal with the dispute

by Davide Madeddu

TISCALI

3' min read

Translated by AI
Versione italiana

3' min read

Translated by AI
Versione italiana

Thirty days, approximately, to close the Tiscali game. The telecommunications company founded in the 1990s by entrepreneur Renato Soru and now at the centre of a dispute that, amidst redundancies and takeover proposals, is playing its last cards for salvation and relaunch.

On the table, for the time being, is the offer of the Ligurian company Canarbino for a business branch lease aimed at the acquisition for which the board of directors of Tesselis, the parent company of Tiscali, in recent days has expressed a further positive opinion. Specifically, the board of directors at its meeting on 30 March, as stated in the company's official press release, "resolved to accept a supplementary offer received on 29 March 2026, relating to the binding offer concerning the B2C business unit of Tiscali Italia, transmitted by Canarbino S.p.A. on 1 March 2026".

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30 days for new offers

Not only that: on 31 March the Notice of Solicitation to Submit Improved Offers. "On 31 March, as part of the negotiated crisis settlement procedure initiated on 1 March 2026," continued a final company note, "a single competitive procedure was called for the lease of the licence and the subsequent purchase of certain business units. There are 30 days for the submission of any further offers.

The Region in the Field

Monitoring the dispute is now also the Region, which on 1 April with President Alessandra Todde and Councillors for Labour Desirè Manca and Industry Emanuele Cani met with the trade unions. Regional President Alessandra Todde guaranteed 'the commitment to continuous coordination in order to be able to deal in the best possible way with the new buyer in the interests of the workers and at the same time to request, together with the Puglia Region, a meeting at the Ministry on the national dispute'. For next week, a meeting has been announced in the offices of the Department of Labour of Canarbino and Tiscali to deal with the dispute as a whole.

Lightening procedure closed

From the unions, at the end of the meeting with the company, an invitation to 'a sense of responsibility to save a company that is also the heritage of the whole of Sardinia'.

'For the time being, 93 people have joined the incentive redundancy plan,' says Tonino Ortega, secretary of Uil comunicazione. The procedure of 223 closes on 14 May. The company told us that there are still other requests to be verified and that a balance will be reached by the deadline'. The focus now shifts to the workers who remain outside the business transfer. 'It will be the task of politics,' adds Ortega, 'to work to ensure that no one is left behind and that the sale is concluded, which aims to save the company and the jobs of those who remain.

"We believe that the proposal made by Canarbino represents an important value to keep a historical company like Tiscali standing," commented Francesco Garau, head of the CGIL industry department. However, we have asked President Todde and the councillors present that the road of continuity in the TLC sector be pursued in parallel. Tiscali still has some frequencies in its belly and, above all, great professionalism, which is the real added value of the company. The Region and the competent Ministries Mef and Mimit must verify whether there is any possible interest from companies in the sector. Following this, we will understand which road to take. It must be duly borne in mind that there are important creditors whose fate weighs on the final decisions'.

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