Broadband Who Owns Who? - 14/12/10
Posted by Cloud Net on Tue, Dec 14, 2010 @ 05:10 AM
Things get confusing very rapidly in telecoms. So here is my instant guide to who owns which brand in broadband. Some of the brands mentioned are no longer being traded.
BT owns PlusNet, Madasafish, Brightview and Freenetname
TalkTalk owns Opal, AOL, Tiscali, Pipex, Bulldog, Nildra, Toucan, Freedom2Surf
Cable and Wireless Worldwide (confusingly the British bit of C&W) owns Thus and Demon
02 (who are owned by Telefonica of Spain) own Be
KCom (who used to be Kingston Communications) own Eclipse
New Call Telecoms Ltd owns Primus
Written by David Hill, Chairman, Cloudnet
Cloudnet supplies business phone systems and services to SMEs and start-ups. Its Cloudnet Connect system offers the advantages of no capital expenditure necessary to run a professional PBX and dramatically lower running costs. Cloudnet has developed a dedicated voice over IP (VoIP) network providing free calls within its network and cheap rate calls outside of the Cloudnet network. The company also offers CLASS, a live answering service and has introduced mobile VoIP solutions. Cloudnet is privately financed and started trading in March 2009.
