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/ ).
They were bought by Pipex in September 2006. [1]
