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349:(FTTH) broadband internet and telephone service in Hull and surrounding areas. The company only provide broadband services to customers with a KCOM residential telephone line. KCOM formerly provided these services under the Karoo and later KC brands, until it adopted the group name across its entire business in 2016. KCOM also provides business broadband services through its
368:(ONT). A router is then plugged into the ONT to distribute the service throughout the home. As of April 2015, the service offered software limited speeds of up to 250 Mbit/s downstream bandwidth. Due to delivery being FTTH greater speeds are a formality and fuelled by market expectation and not network restriction.
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was within the market range. The main reason cited by rivals for not providing services in the Hull area was rather one of overall cost-effectiveness, given the relatively small number of potential customers (190,000 homes), and the fact that many of these would be likely to remain with the incumbent
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Woodmansey. Around 300 homes were involved in the trial. The trial was part of a plan to roll out increased speeds to more than 15,000 homes across the East Riding of Yorkshire. The service is now available for up to 45,000 properties with a further 60,000, bringing the total fibre network
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regarding the provision of network access to KC's rivals. The complaint was that "Giacom alleges that
Kingston is not providing access on reasonable terms as Kingston's pricing is anti-competitive and prohibitive to service providers ". In April 2006 Giacom and KC resumed negotiations on a deal to
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service is the only fixed-line residential broadband operator in the Hull area. According to a decision from the
European Commission in 2004, KCOM Group held a 100% market share in the wholesale market of broadband services in the Hull area.
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to carry their services into residential neighbourhoods, causing residents' protests. Local planning consent was not required under "permitted development rights".
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infrastructure in the city. The council gave its approval, securing the future of the country's only remaining municipally owned telephone corporation.
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626:"Three flotations that test global buoyancy"
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1277:Kemp, Dan (21 August 2019).
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765:– via www.reuters.com.
718:Comms Dealer, 16 August 2007
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908:on 10 September 2015
902:"Tech Nation report"
714:27 July 2012 at the
528:Hull Kingston Rovers
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575:on 12 November 2013
464:'s approach to Sir
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230:white telephone box
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2458:Symbian Foundation
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1833:BT Global Services
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1152:. 7 September 2023
1072:on 2 December 2008
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