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12th October, 2016 (0 Comments)

KCOM has today announced the next roll-out phase for their “ultrafast” Lightstream fibre optic (FTTP/C) broadband network in Hull (East Yorkshire), which reflects the next 6 months of deployment from now until March 2017; this will add an additional 25,000 premises passed to the total.

7th October, 2016 (13 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has found “reasonable grounds for believing” that KCOM in East Yorkshire and Hull (England) “failed” to take sufficient measures to maintain uninterrupted telephone access to emergency services on 999 and 112 between 25th Feb 2009 to 28th Dec 2015.

30th September, 2016 (2 Comments)

Good news for East Yorkshire. KCOM’s on-going deployment of their new ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) dominated “Lightstream” broadband network in Hull has now reached 100,000 local homes and businesses (premises passed), which is up sharply from 78,000 in May 2016.

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16th September, 2016 (5 Comments)

Communications provider MS3, which last week announced plans to roll-out an “ultrafast” Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) broadband network around parts of Hull in East Yorkshire (here), has today confirmed an initial investment of £500,000 and named their first trial area of 1,200 homes.

6th September, 2016 (13 Comments)

Communications developer MS3, which operates a business focused dark fibre optic network in Hull (East Yorkshire), has today announced the radical decision to take on KCOM by entering the domestic connectivity market with an “ultrafast” Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) broadband service (Giga+).

25th August, 2016 (5 Comments)

Cityfibre, which operates a number of ultrafast Gigabit-capable fibre optic (FTTP) broadband networks across several cities in the United Kingdom, has today opened up their existing 62km long network in Hull (East Yorkshire) for use by local businesses.

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3rd August, 2016 (0 Comments)

East Yorkshire telecoms operator KCOM has today unveiled the next phase of their “Lightstream” fibre optic (FTTP/C) broadband network roll-out, which will reach more than 6,500 homes and businesses in Hull’s Willerby Road and surrounding streets later this year.

29th July, 2016 (1 Comment)

The incumbent telecoms and broadband operator for Hull and parts of East Yorkshire in England, KCOM, has hailed a new report that claims they have a “substantial impact” upon the local area by generating 1,600 Full-Time Equivalent jobs and delivering a £187m economic boost.

22nd July, 2016 (0 Comments)

Customers of telecoms operator KCOM, which serves the Hull and surrounding areas in East Yorkshire (England), are being warned to be on their guard after fraudsters attempted to target subscribers with fake support calls.

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7th July, 2016 (0 Comments)

Hull telecoms operator KCOM has today announced the next batch of roll-out locations for their new “Lightstream” fibre optic (FTTP/C) broadband network. Overall 5,000 properties in the Bricknell Avenue area and a similar number in Hedon and Preston should be covered by the end of 2016.

24th June, 2016 (0 Comments)

Around 150 homes on the Orchard Park housing estate in North West Hull (East Yorkshire, England) look set to receive 6 months of free broadband from local ISP KCOM, which forms part of a joint initiative with Hull City Council that is attempting to help get more people online.

9th June, 2016 (5 Comments)

The Hull and East Yorkshire (England) focused telecoms operator KCOM has kindly confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that around 8% (12,000 premises) of their planned fibre optic based broadband roll-out to 150,000 local premises will be catered for via the slower Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) service.

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27th May, 2016 (2 Comments)

KCOM, the incumbent telecoms operator for Hull and East Yorkshire in England, has revealed that their on-going “Lightstream” roll-out of fibre optic broadband (FTTP/C) services has now covered 78,000 premises with 26,000 connected including 1,700 businesses (33.33% take-up).

25th March, 2016 (10 Comments)

The telecoms regulator has today published their re-jigged annual 2016 report into the Internet performance of the United Kingdom’s largest fixed line home broadband ISPs and their customers, which reveals that the average home download speed has jumped from 22.8Mbps last year to 28.9Mbps now. But the gap between rural and urban areas is still significant.

24th March, 2016 (4 Comments)

The incumbent telecoms operator for Hull and East Yorkshire in England, KC (soon to become KCOM), has today announced another major boost to their on-going “Lightstream” fibre optic broadband (FTTP/C) roll-out, which will now aim to cover 150,000 premises by December 2017.

21st March, 2016 (4 Comments)

The KCOM Group (formerly Kingston Communications), which owns Hull and East Yorkshire’s incumbent broadband provider KC and several other brands (Smart421, Eclipse Internet and Kcom), has begun informing customers of their decision to re-brand everything under the single name of just “KCOM“.

2nd March, 2016 (4 Comments)

Customers of Hull’s incumbent telecoms and broadband provider, KC (KCOM), are this morning still suffering from broadband connectivity problems after a fault began plaguing the network at around 3pm yesterday afternoon.

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