Bulldog begins pull-out of residential broadband - Club CDFreaks

*JayC30* · 09-06-2006

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Bulldog is to pull the plug on its consumer broadband service.

The internet service provider (ISP) , which is owned by Cable & Wireless (C & W) will not actively seek to sign up any new customers to the loss-making service from 1 July.

The move comes despite the company spending millions recently on a high profile advertising campaign. Featuring actor Terence Stamp, it tells consumers that "the gate is open" for high-speed internet access.

However, Bulldog said the 140,000 people already using the service will continue to be provided with a service and they shouldn't see any difference.

Although C & W is axing around 140 sales and marketing jobs, a representative told Computeractive that customer and technical support will continue as normal.

"Things such as billing function and technical support will remain the same and customers should see no change," the company said.

However the company warned that its current consumers could find themselves 'sold' to another ISP. It said it would consider approaches from other companies to buy the customer database. How it said it couldn’t say how this would affect current customers.

"At the moment customers who are signed up for a 12-month contract will have to honour this. We can't say what will happen if another company buys the database because terms and conditions may be different for them, which could affect this," Bulldog told us.

C&W now intends to concentrate on providing a wholesale service to other ISPs. It has invested heavily in local loop unbundling. It already has its equipment in 411 exchanges and intends to continue with its plan to have 800 exchanges unbundled by September.

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/comp...ll-residential

*debro* · 11-06-2006

Bugger ... tis always bad for the consumer when a competitor goes belly up

**Arachne** · 11-06-2006

Jay, do you want to edit your thread title?

Wow, this is hot on the heels of Orange buying Wanadoo...

*JayC30* · 11-06-2006

I can't, it's this new bloody keyboard, keys are still sticking and when I press one I get the next ones letter or symbol.

**Arachne** · 12-06-2006

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Originally Posted by JayC30

I can't, it's this new bloody keyboard, keys are still sticking and when I press one I get the next ones letter or symbol.

Thought I'd be nice and edit the title for you. You can probably tell, I'm bored

11-06-2006	#2 (permalink)
debro Blown to smitherines Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: The c@ke mixer Posts: 9,975	Re: Bukkdog begins pull-out of residential broadband Bugger ... tis always bad for the consumer when a competitor goes belly up __________________ CDFreaks - Overwhelmed by Ignorance since 2005! We lost the battle, but we haven't lost the war! Click Here to sign up to the resistance movement! Viva La Resistance! Admitting that you've illegally downloaded movies/songs and need help to process/burn is comparable to robbing a bank, and walking into the bank the next day holding the bags of money to deposit them into your account. Don't be surprised if people laugh at you when you make the headlines.

11-06-2006	#3 (permalink)
Arachne Senior Moderator & Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Keeping my media stash safe. Posts: 25,365	Re: Bukkdog begins pull-out of residential broadband Jay, do you want to edit your thread title? Wow, this is hot on the heels of Orange buying Wanadoo... __________________ Current drives: Samsung SH-S203N (SB02 patched) + Pioneer DVR-115D (1.06) + Optiarc AD-5170S (1.12) + Litey LH-20A1H (LL0D) + Samsung SH-S182D (SB06 RPC1) x2 + Litey SHM-165P6S (MS0R) + LG E10N (JE07) + BenQ DW1650 (BCDC) x2 + Litey SHW-1635S (YV6P) x2 + BenQ DW1640@164B (BEFB) + LG 4167B (DL13 TDB) + Samsung SH-S162L (TS08) + NEC ND-4551A (1.Z2) + LG GCE-8520B (1.00) + LiteOn SOHR-5239S (2S0B) Retired: LiteOn LDW-851@SOHW-832 + LiteOn SOHW-1693S + LG 4163B My Review PCs How to delete your upper and lower filters : How to check/enable DMA by Womble Click here to join cdfreaks.com and be part of our friendly community! The CDFreaks Distributed Computing Teams need YOU! Join the Team(s) and help save some lives! Read more here

11-06-2006	#4 (permalink)
JayC30 CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,140	Re: Bukkdog begins pull-out of residential broadband I can't, it's this new bloody keyboard, keys are still sticking and when I press one I get the next ones letter or symbol. __________________ "I'm only happy when it rains, I feel good when things are going wrong, I only listen to the sad, sad songs, I'm only happy when it rains" (Garbage-"I'm Only Happy When It Rains")

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