Two offers for Tiscali's business units. Trade union pressure on the Region

Two offers on the table and a race against time to save the company. For the Tiscali dispute, the Cagliari-based telecommunications company founded in the 1990s by entrepreneur Renato Soru, the second phase has begun. That of the leasing of the company branches. The time for submitting new applications expired on 30 April and there are two offers on the table.

"For the consumer part - they make known from the company - the offer of lease and subsequent purchase of the branch B2C, branch Web mail and brands "Tiscali" and "Linkem" presented by Canarbino on March 1, 2026, because on April 30 no other offers have arrived". That's not all: "For the part of the B2B branch of GO Internet (including the shareholding held in X-Stream Srl)," the company continued, "the Company has received an irrevocable offer from a leading Italia technology group in the provision of cloud infrastructure and hosting services in Europe, for a total consideration of Euro 4,200,000".

Meanwhile, other knots have to be untangled. On 15 May, a meeting is scheduled under the negotiated crisis settlement procedure. On 25 May, there should be (still to be confirmed) a meeting at Mimit to address the dispute.

Meanwhile, on 30 April, Tiscali news, the group's online daily, ceased publication. 'Now we will go through these appointments to try to find a solution,' says Antonello Marongiu of the CGIL, 'the objective is still to save the company and the wealth of professionalism that has been built up over the years.

The unions, meanwhile, let it be known that they have started requests for consultations. 'We will make both a request for a meeting to jointly examine the status of the dispute with the company,' says Tonino Ortega, secretary general of the Uilfpc, 'and then we will ask for a meeting with the Region to understand how the institutions also intend to move. Not least because, as the trade unionist points out, about 50 workers would be excluded from the whole game. 'At this point it is necessary whether or not there will be the possibility of a transfer with Canarbino for these people. What we would like to avoid is a break-up. That is why we will urge the region, which had made formal commitments, to work to find a solution to this problem as well'.