History
Tiscali was created in January 1998 in Cagliari by Renato Soru, following the deregulation of Italian telephone. The company owes its name to the mountain in Sardinia, where there are the remains of a nuragic village dating from the sixth to fourth centuries BC. Since March 1999, Tiscali offered free access to the Internet(people still had to pay the time), called Tiscali Free Net, pushing that time all Italian providers to repeal the fixed subscription of about 200,000 lire a year, thus contributing to the spread of mass in Italy the Internet.
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