The sale of Pipex to rival ISP Tiscali has finally gone though after the OK from industry regulator Ofcom.

Tiscali will now officially take over the broadband and voice divisions of Pipex Communications, though it has not bought 123-reg, the domain registar or web-hosting service WebFusion, which were part of the Pipex group.

Pipex itself was no stranger to buying other ISP's with it purchasing Bulldog Internet and Freedom2Surf in the past, but now it's become part of the Italian Giant. Tiscali's customer base is just under two million, which makes it the fourth largest ISP, although it still has only half the customers for the industry leader BTmarket who have over four million UK  customers.