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 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 £250 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 [1]. The deal did not include technical infrastructure and local exchange systems, which continue to be owned by C&W and leased back to Bulldog.[2]
On 17 May 2007, Pipex announced that it is to close Bulldog's standalone call centres in the UK[3].
