Cable & Wireless to extend Bulldog broadband service in UK

British telecom company Cable & Wireless is thinking about extending its Bulldog broadband service to more than half of the UK population, presenting a significant challenge to BT in the race to attract Internet users. As the Media Guardian http://www.mediaguardian.co.uk reports, the company, which returned to the residential market a year ago through the acquisition of Bulldog, yesterday announced plans to spend 190 million pounds in the next three years upgrading its UK network. While the new network will allow C&W to offer corporate customers an improved range of communication services using Internet technology, it will also serve as the basis for a reinvigorated consumer offering through Bulldog. As a result, Bulldog is understood to be aiming to recruit many more engineers and will reveal numbers when it reports its annual results in May.