Thus, owner of Demon Internet, looks set to finally be owned by Cable & Wireless.
Despite the board rejecting C&W’s offer of 165p per share, which was increased to 180p at the end of June, it has now virtually conceded defeat. The turnaround has been prompted by Thus not receiving comparable offers from a ‘white knight’
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, who own both Pipex and Bulldog, have been angering both their residential and business customers this week.
Tiscali have begun migrating Pipex’s ADSL customers on to their LLU network, which covers some 731 exchanges. Concerned Pipex users have been contacting us about the move, with users complaining of issues ranging from poor speeds and latency,
It seems that at the beginning of each year someone somewhere heralds the coming year as being the “year of broadband”. 2007 was no different, with many predicting that LLU would truly take off. In many ways this has held true - there are now in excess of 3 million unbundled lines in the UK,
It seems like the LLU providers are all dead set on reaching their autumn coverage targets. Bulldog and Easynet have rolled out 68 and 44 new exchanges respectively this week. Rumour has it that another major LLU player is about to embark upon a new deployment plan as well. Those of you who are particularly
Many of you have reported to me that the Bulldog data on the site is not truly reflective of what the Bulldog residential checker displays. This is because we take a feed from their wholesale checker, and whilst you might expect the information to tally closely, in quite a few cases it does not.
For this
I remember noting a few months back in the news how static Easynet’s LLU deployment was, while at the same time Bulldog and Be were steaming ahead with new exchanges. Well, the tables seem to have turned now! Easynet have brought 124 exchanges online for the LLU service in the past 28 days, whereas Bulldog
The Telegraph is this morning reporting that mobile group O2, itself recently purchased by Telefonica, has bought LLU operator Be Un Limited for £50m. The fact that O2 has been looking to acquire an LLU operator has been common knowledge for some time, as they have been tied to potential deals with both Bulldog and
The rumour mill has been working overtime for the last 12 hours since ZDNet published an article claiming that Bulldog were leaving the retail market and were instead going to resume offering wholesale products again. This morning Cable & Wireless, Bulldog’s parent company, has confirmed the story in their announcement.
In summary, from 1st July 2006
Vodafone has today been discussing the companies future strategy with analysts following this mornings announcement of a £14.9bn loss. According to Reuters, the worlds largest mobile operator is considering unbundling exchanges in order to provide broadband services. This has added credence to earlier rumours that Vodafone was looking at acquiring an existing LLU operator, such
Be, Bulldog, Easynet, Wanadoo and even HomeChoice have all been busy unbundling exchanges recently. There’s too many exchanges to list here so, I’ll just give a brief summary for each provider and refer you to the relevant provider page where you can see the full lists (ordered by enablement date).
Be Unlimited have been continuing their
Just under a year ago, Cable and Wireless announced their year-end results for March 2005. Within this they stated that they planned to have 600 exchanges unbundled by Bulldog by March 2006, and 800 by late autumn 2006. Anyone familiar with the figures though will know that Bulldog have remained static at around 410 exchanges
After undergoing months of trials and forming the basis of endless speculation, Bulldog have finally launched their ADSL2+ services. Touted at running at 16Mbps downstream, with 1Mbps upsteam, the service is available at all of Bulldog’s unbundled exchanges (according to Bulldog’s FAQ).
It’s still unclear as to whether Bulldog are capping the product at 16Mbps or
The state of Tiscali’s LLU seems to be causing quite a stir on various forums, with many users interested in knowing whether or not their exchange will be a part of the rollout. We’re currently working to get a full exchange list, but in the mean time, one PlusNet user has posted a list of
I’ve added 148 Bulldog RFS to the LLU pages. See here for the full list. I’ll be providing a much needed update to the maps soon.
Incidentally, next week promises to be another interesting week for LLU. That said, the news will be nothing new to those who know where to look already!
I’ve updated the Bulldog data and added Be* and Wanadoo data to the site. The Be* and Wanadoo data is currently viewable only on the LLU pages. I’ll add that data to the individual exchange pages shortly (a major database change prohibits this at present).
More updates to follow soon.
Bulldog have rolled out to a further 8 exchanges this time 7 in London and the final area is Stevenage.
The exchanges are:
Addiscombe
Colindale
Deptford
Kensington Gardens
Norbury
Stevenage
Thornton Heath
West Kensington
Updated list can be found here
Or use our coverage checker here
Hopefully this is a aggressive start to the year from all LLU providers, with further news expected from Easynet / UKOnline
Today we have been informed that Bulldog is offering LLU services outside of M25.
The 7 areas are listed below:
Hemel Hempstead, Herts
Leagrave, Luton
Luton, Luton
Hoddesdon, Herts
Bedford, Bedfordshire
Basildon, Essex
Boreham, Chelmsford
In addition they have enabled a further 11 exchanges within the M25 to bring the total to 78.
A full list can be found here
Interestingly they list Uxbridge as being
Easynet are to offer LLUStream via their network of LLU exchanges - list here
Pricing is unclear as yet but in the press release from Easynet they are making noises about being significantly cheaper.
2005 should be a interesting year for LLU developments.
Wanadoo looking at rolling out LLU services
AOL has also mentioned that LLU rollout is a
Bulldog have silently unbundled an additional 23 exchanges recently. Whilst their Bulldog4 service is no longer available for purchase, it does mean that their integrated phone and internet packages are more widely available around London.
The full list of exchanges unbundled by Bulldog can be found here.
Cable & Wireless, who bought Bulldog earlier this year, still