After Biscit went into administration last week it seemed that a saviour was on the horizon after Breathe sought to buy the company.

However it now seems that all is not rosy as the ISP were not able to go through with the sale. According to a statement on their website the reason is that Breathe were "prohibited from contacting [the customers] directly, and cannot migrate them to our services, although we will be delighted to provide any assistance that we can to anyone who contacts us".

This is because of the ongoing dispute on who actually owns customers, after Biscit's acquisition of V21 led to difficulties with V21's previous supplier, Netservices. Although Biscit won the case there is a "legal dispute, and does not involve Breathe Networks", but this is no comfort to it's 12,500 customers who look to lose out if the situation isn't resolved.