Bulldog Communications
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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 the revelations at Cable & Wireless in early '06, there has been much speculation as to whether Bulldog will continued to be owned by them. It has been said that £250mn has been invested into bulldog yet only 80,000 customers have signed up - or a cost of around £3,500 per customer. When you consider that Bulldog has been aggressively marking down its pricing, few of these customers will generate over £20/month profit for C&W.
On 16th August 2004 Bulldog voluntarily signed the OfCom Broadband Migration Code of Practices alongside 30+ other Internet Service Providers in order to fairly facilitate the "migration" of customers between two ISP's. ( http://www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/codes/bbm_cop/ ) Despite this voluntary agreement which states "A customer wishing to change their service provider must first contact their existing service provider and request a MAC (customers should not request the service be ceased)" Bulldog inform their customers that MAC codes cannot be given out without prior cancellation of the Bulldog Service.
They were bought by Pipex in September 2006. [1]
