The Carphone Warehouse in Hull's St Stephen's centre reports that there has been a 200% rise in sales of USB Modems for Mobile Broadband connections over the past three months, which compares with a national average rise of 45%.

Carphone suggests that residents may be choosing to bypass Kingston Communications' (Karoo) local network altogether, choosing to vote with their feet at the areas lack of supplier choice and high prices:


Kingston (KCOM) has made a number of changes to improve services in the area, including revamping their own packages and lowering wholesale prices. Unfortunately this has had little impact in terms of supplier choice. It remains to be seen whether the Mobile Broadband uptake in Hull is physically resulting in fewer land-line broadband connections for KCOM.