Broadband

Hot on the heels of last week’s news that Bulldog were cutting off all of their SDSL clients, it now seems that Bulldog is accepting no new customers at all.

Whilst the Bulldog website still speaks of its products on various pages, anyone attempting to buy any products or perform an availability check is redirected to Tiscali’s broadband products. If Tiscali were merely incorporating the Bulldog packages into their own then the move would not warrant much attention. However, this is not the case. At the time of writing, the Tiscali product pages made no mention of any new 16Mbps packages.

One can only assume that Tiscali will eventually begin offering faster broadband products, presumably using ADSL2+ over their sizeable LLU network. At present they are being left behind by Sky (16Mbps), O2 (20Mbps) and Virgin Media (20Mbps). They do however maintain a slight edge over TalkTalk (Carphone Warehouse), who do not yet have a TV component in their product lineup.

One thing’s for sure though; with Tiscali operating their own LLU network already, they’ll be having a hard time justifying the relatively expensive rental of Cable & Wireless’s LLU network to satisfy Bulldog’s 80,000-strong userbase.

Tags: Bulldog, Carphone Warehouse, Sky, Talk Talk, Tiscali