topic Re: No service in Broadband

No service

Metalmickey1 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:21:50 GMT

I live in the East Riding and the only provider I can get is kcom. I'm currently paying £55 a month, I , and many others would love to have different options. How in this day and age can kcom have such a monopoly on this whole area....

Re: No service

Sharcuk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:30:29 GMT

@Metalmickey1 Not for much longer it seems.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/telecoms-infrastructure/2021-26-hull-area-wholesale-fixed-telecoms-market-review#:~:text=Review%202021%2D26-,Statement:%20Promoting%20competition%20in%20fibre%20networks%20%E2%80%93%20Hull%20Area%20Wholesale%20Fixed,Telecoms%20Market%20Review%202021%2D26&text=This%20statement%20sets%20out%20how,the%20responses%20we%20have%20received.

Re: No service

TimmyBGood — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:43:25 GMT

@Metalmickey1 wrote:

How in this day and age can kcom have such a monopoly on this whole area....

Technically because Hull City Council bought the relevant infrastructure from the wreckage of the National Telephone Company in 1914 ; )

https://www.kcom.com/about-us/history/

Re: No service

TimmyBGood — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:55:01 GMT

@Sharcuk wrote:

@Metalmickey1 Not for much longer it seems.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/telecoms-infrastructure/2021-26-hull-area-wholesale-fixed-telecoms-market-review

Actually that's the previous consultation, which Ofcom themselves admit failed to achieve meaningful competition.

The current one closes on Thursday.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/telecoms-infrastructure/consultation-promoting-competition-and-investment-in-fibre-networks-hull-area-review-2026-31

Re: No service

Metalmickey1 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:51:52 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

i and many others in the East Riding would love to have a choice. It seems unfair and unlikely in this day and age that things are going to change. I think that if a company came into the area there would be a massive exodus from kcom as the prices are just ridiculous

Re: No service

Metalmickey1 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:54:06 GMT

It's the choice of providers in the area that's frustrating, we literally only have kcom. I have to have boosters all around the house so I'm sorted on that front

Re: No service

Metalmickey1 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:54:44 GMT

Closes on Thursday????

Re: No service

TimmyBGood — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:35:10 GMT

@Metalmickey1 wrote:

Closes on Thursday????

17:00 on Thursday 26th February 2026 is the end point for submissions to Ofcom on the revised proposal for tackling lack of competition to KCOM, which I linked to above.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/telecoms-infrastructure/consultation-promoting-competition-and-investment-in-fibre-networks-hull-area-review-2026-31

Re: No service

TimmyBGood — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:38:46 GMT

@Metalmickey1 wrote:

I think that if a company came into the area there would be a massive exodus from kcom as the prices are just ridiculous

The problem is that it's still a real gamble for any incoming provider to pay out multiple millions to get infrastructure in place to serve an inherently limited overall market.