Karoo?(Hull)

Hi, my daughter is in the Hull area and has a Kingston telephone
connection,
can anyone who is using Kingston tell me if it is possible to sign up
with another ISP as I wish to set up a broadband connection for her,
Kingston say no.


Regards Bri@n




Brian

In article <427a2ac9$0$83046$(E-Mail Removed)>,
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> Hi, my daughter is in the Hull area and has a Kingston telephone
> connection,
> can anyone who is using Kingston tell me if it is possible to sign up
> with another ISP as I wish to set up a broadband connection for her,
> Kingston say no.
>
>
Kingston are right. They have the monopoly in their area of coverage.
You used to be able to get AOL on dial-up. I don't know whether that
extended to broadband or the whole thing was scrapped.
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Brian wrote:
> Hi, my daughter is in the Hull area and has a Kingston telephone
> connection,
> can anyone who is using Kingston tell me if it is possible to sign up
> with another ISP as I wish to set up a broadband connection for her,
> Kingston say no.

There was discussion about this in another Newsgroup last week.

BT have never covered the Hull area (due to a set of circumstances from
decades ago) and therefore the only broadband service available is from
Kingston themselves. 256k at 18 quid/month, and that's it AIUI.

Ofcom are not interested in rectifying this situation (allegedly).

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"Brian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:427a2ac9$0$83046$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi, my daughter is in the Hull area and has a Kingston telephone
> connection,
> can anyone who is using Kingston tell me if it is possible to sign up
> with another ISP as I wish to set up a broadband connection for her,
> Kingston say no.
>
>
> Regards Bri@n
>
>
Unfortunately, Kingston have a monopoly on telecomms in the Hull area. No
other providers are allowed (or want to) to provide telecomms.

Other ISP's (AOL, Wanadoo etc), require a BT line, which isn't available in
Hull

On Thu, 5 May 2005 15:40:21 +0100, Mugwump <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>In article <427a2ac9$0$83046$(E-Mail Removed)>,
>(E-Mail Removed) says...
>> Hi, my daughter is in the Hull area and has a Kingston telephone
>> connection,
>> can anyone who is using Kingston tell me if it is possible to sign up
>> with another ISP as I wish to set up a broadband connection for her,
>> Kingston say no.
>>
>>
>Kingston are right. They have the monopoly in their area of coverage.
>You used to be able to get AOL on dial-up. I don't know whether that
>extended to broadband or the whole thing was scrapped.

it can't be done, you have a choice of either kingston, kingston or
kingston :-(

either that or move to grimsby where you have a choice of whatever you
want ;-)

On Thu, 5 May 2005 15:47:56 +0100, ABC <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Unfortunately, Kingston have a monopoly on telecomms in the Hull area. No
> other providers are allowed (or want to) to provide telecomms.

BT, and various other PTOs, have a license for the Hull area - and have had
for a while now.

At one time BT's second biggest business centre was in Hull, and the Royal
Mail PAF lists a number of BT exchange premises in Hull.

It's not KC's fault these other PTOs don't *want* to supply residential
service.

It was the same when KC rolled out indirect access, the number of indirect
access operators who could be bothered to actually get access was small.

On 5 May 2005 15:16, "Brian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>can anyone who is using Kingston tell me if it is possible to sign up
>with another ISP as I wish to set up a broadband connection for her,
>Kingston say no.

Few surprises then. One of my clients chose to use Freeserve (dial up)
and hasn't looked to switch to broadband, but given their location and
telecomms and ADSL knowledge, why not check with Solwise(.co.uk) as it
is independent of KC and will no doubt confirm that the only service a
KC-connected customer can currently get is from Karoo (of course, they
may know of plans from Bulldog or Easynet to use LLU within the area).


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"Brian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:427a2ac9$0$83046$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi, my daughter is in the Hull area and has a Kingston telephone
> connection,
> can anyone who is using Kingston tell me if it is possible to sign up
> with another ISP as I wish to set up a broadband connection for her,
> Kingston say no.
>
>
> Regards Bri@n
>
>