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[Metalmickey1]

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....

[Sharcuk]

@Metalmickey1 Not for much longer it seems.

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

[TimmyBGood]

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@Metalmickey1 wrote:

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

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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/ 

[TimmyBGood]

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@Sharcuk wrote:

@Metalmickey1 Not for much longer it seems.

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

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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-competi... 

[Metalmickey1]

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 

[Metalmickey1]

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

[Metalmickey1]

Closes on Thursday????

[TimmyBGood]

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@Metalmickey1 wrote:

Closes on Thursday????

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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-competi... 

[TimmyBGood]

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@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 

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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.