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BREATHE are in ADMINISTRATION

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Breathe Internet Limited are in Administration from 08/12/2005. Don't bother wasting your time phoning the India call centre you are wasting your money.
 
Breathe - In Administration

A look on the Companies House website confirms that Breathe Internet are in administration. The following information is also shown (14th March 2006):

Name & Registered Office:
BREATHE INTERNET LIMITED
2 MOUNTVIEW COURT
310 FRIERN BARNET LANE
WHETSTONE
LONDON N20 0YZ

Insolvency Practitioners concerned:

HARRIS LIPMAN
2 MOUNTVIEW COURT
310 FRIERN BARNET LANE
WHETSTONE
LONDON N20 0YZ

Hope this information may help anyone facing problems.
 
funny thing is - they bought gio's unmetered dialup customers..... looks like the bad luck follows anything connected to gio in some sort of way
 
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Breathe appears to be a brand of Net Access Ltd.

From Companies House:

Name & Registered Office:
NET ACCESS LIMITED
Company No. 04350807

Case Number: 1
Case Type: IN ADMINISTRATION

Practitioner name: LINTON, MARTIN H
Practitioner address:
LEIGH & CO
BRENTMEAD HOUSE
BRITANNIA ROAD
LONDON
N12 9RU
 
major, i've only herd of one of them :D
 
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Knowing Net Aquisitions they will be moved onto one of their other ISPS its just their way to cut back...
 
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So it would appear that BREATHE and NET ACCESS are in administration and also that NET ACQUISITIONS are in liquidation. Not the best of news for their customers.
 
Interestingly enough the domains listed are now registered with
Net Access Ltd, The Media Village, 131-151 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 5BB, UK
which seems to be a 'new' address (hosted/virtual offices I think but could well be wrong).

Warning : the following may include speculation :D

My guess is that the userbase will get shoved over to Netcom/Viatel if they aren't already there, and if they are all handled by Aurora Billing the users might not notice (aurorabilling.com is the breathe signup link).

Having said that, the aurorabilling.com (reg: Opus ABS Ltd) website goes to a bushinternet page which redirects to a breathe login page, so it is possible that they might not be an entirely separate entity.

My own (perhaps cynical) take is that it's going to be another one of those tangled-web company/asset shuffles. Fingers crossed the users won't be on the losing side (again?).

As for the various companies, to summarise what others have posted (and a couple of additions)

04350807 Net Access In Administration as from 21/12/05
04685199 Breathe Internet (previously VitalData) in Administration as from 8/12/05
03396810 Virtual ISP Services (previously breathe internet) in Liquidation (13/1/05)
04648661 Net Access Cable and Satellite Services (previously Breathe Internet) - OK
04818624 Net Acquisitions in Liquidation (5/8/04)

One or more of the above also went by the name(s) of cleverview, affinity, virtual internet provider, etc etc...
 
There was also NET ACQUISITIONS MK LIMITED (Dissolved 30/08/2005 ) Company No. 03722097

Previous Names:
Date of change Previous Name
09/09/2003 BASESIGN LIMITED
26/08/2003 NET ACQUISITIONS LTD
06/07/2000 CLIENTASSET LIMITED
_________________________
seems to have been a shuffle of names :confused:

NET ACQUISITIONS LIMITED Company No. 04818624
Previous Names:
Date of change Previous Name
26/08/2003 BASESIGN LIMITED
 
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There's a lot of also-rans kicking about the place.
Mel said:
seems to have been a shuffle of names
Name-swapping isn't as uncommon as you might think.
e.g.
(numbers added for clarity - remove the numbers for a different kind of clarity)
Corp_a1 is 'having issues'.
Corp_b1 buys some subdivision of Corp_a1 (cheap rate accepted out of desperation).
Corp_a1 renames to Corp_b2, Corp_b1 renames to Corp_a2 - there may be intermediate steps via Corp_c.
Corp_b1 continues the business of Corp_a1 under its new name of Corp_a2.
Corp_a1, under the name of Corp_b2, fades into the background, having been declared insolvent and (more often than not) unable to repay its investors.
Corp_a2 (actually Corp_b1 - did you see what we did there?) continues with a technically-clean slate (no debts). Maybe even with the same headed paper.

This is a completely legitimate process undertaken by many completely legitimate business enterprises.

Round and round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows ;)
South Park Gnome Step 2...?
 
where did it all go wrong?

Well,

you put a genius in front, and some pentioners behind. There you go the management team behind netaccess. The good news they kicked out the deadwood a long time ago. Bang out went netacquisitions!! no more dirty isp, th enew clean boys ar in town.

So what do they do..... oh nothing much, watch the userbase decline, come up with a wonderful plan to rebuild the world, and leave there users floundering for air.... no longer breathe, just slow lingering choking death.

To be honest it was a company that just ran out of ideas a long time ago, and lived off spouting the number of users they had 6 years ago. While everyone went off getting broadband, netaccess struggled to have a reason to convince you to stay on 0845, or charge £26 for a 1Mb line.

Deal or No deal?

What to see the future ask the man.....

http://www.marcuseast.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=40
 
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ms sparkle said:
What to see the future ask the man.....
Pants. I spotted that name the other day, but didn't turn up anything beyond the company name and a couple of freelance contracts. (must try harder/see me/etc)

Interesting to see a couple of companies which I seem to already have on the scratchpad (previously marked as 'noteworthy but unlinked'). Makes for an interesting diagram, especially when you factor in company name-changes. There's a lot of 'hosted offices' involved, so having the same address isn't always a good indicator of any relation.

It's an interesting exercise and as long as nobody loses out in all this jiggery-pokery I'm not sure it's really a problem (or is it?).

Umm... define "genius"...
 
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