Bulldog Communications

Bulldog Communications is a UK Internet service provider, offering POTS and broadband services via Local Loop Unbundling with ADSL2+ speeds up to 16 Mbit/s downstream and 1 Mbit/s upstream.

The company was founded in 2000 by American telecoms executive Richard Greco, who was the company's CEO until it was taken over in 2004 by Cable & Wireless.

With mounting financial problems at Cable & Wireless in early 2006, stemming from its troubled purchase of Energis, there was much speculation as to the future status of Bulldog within the group. C&W had invested £25 million in the brand's infrastructure, but only 80,000 customers had signed up (A cost of around £3,500 per customer acqusition).

Following a strategic review which saw C&W withdraw from the consumer market in order to concentrate on business communications, the Bulldog brand was sold to Pipex in September 2006 [http://www.bulldogbroadband.com/residential/announcement/index.asp] . The deal did not include technical infrastructure and local exchange systems, which continue to be owned by C&W and leased back to Bulldog. [http://www.cw.com/docs/media_events/media_centre/releases/2006/Interim_Results_November_press_release.pdf]

On 17 May 2007, Pipex announced that it is to close Bulldog's standalone call centres in the UK [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/15/bulldog_offshoring/] .

External links

* [http://www.bulldogbroadband.com Bulldog Broadband Website]
* [http://www.bulldoglounge.com Bulldog Lounge for existing customers]
* [http://www.samknows.com/broadband/dsloperator.php?provider=bulldog Bulldog's national LLU statistics]
* [http://www.my-bulldog-hell.co.uk Independent site offering advice with Bulldog problems]