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Karoo and Kcom hitting the headlines

Posted on10. Aug, 2009 by admin.

Over the past few weeks, the Google Alerts service has been steadily racking up alert after alert for the keywords Kcom and Karoo. We’ve never known such news coverage about our local ISP / teleco!
There has been a huge amount of coverage around broadband in the UK, and also on our region over the past [...]

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The Digital Britain Final Report – we want your views

Posted on20. Jun, 2009 by admin.

Too little, too late?
This post looks at the response to the Digital Britain Report, as well as asking how this effects us in our region. Hull Digital was interviewed on the BBC Radio Humberside breakfast show which you can listen to below:
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Earlier in the week, the final Digital Britain [...]

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Digital Britain Event Report (important news for South Yorkshire)

Posted on26. Apr, 2009 by admin.

UPDATE >> The presentations from the meeting are now available on the Yorkshire Forward website in PDF format.
Click here and the relevant section is about half way down the page.
On Thursday afternoon, we headed over to the Yorkshire Forward Digital Britain Launch event, held at The Met Hotel in Leeds. There was an excellent turn [...]

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The Digital Britain Report – YOUR feedback needed

Posted on19. Apr, 2009 by admin.

The Digital Future of the country is one we are all passionate about, and have an opinion on.
Unfortunately, it is not looking very healthy at the moment, and Lord Carter’s Digital Britain Report, whilst large and wide ranging, has left many people hugely dissapointed with certain parts of it, more of which we will look [...]

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Hull Digital on the Radio

Posted on27. Feb, 2009 by admin.

Once again, twitter has proved itself!

On Monday, having twittered that we were going to be meeting Steve Jagger from Quickline Communications to test a Wimax signal, we were surprised and pleased to get a tweet from @mrwilliam, the BBC Radio Lincolnshire’s drive time host! You can see the tweeting that went on in [...]

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Marital bliss, through harmonious networking

Posted on08. Feb, 2009 by iancleary.

A Tweet this morning from a friend got me thinking…
…I’m guessing that this is a common scenario for many people? The fact is that it doesn’t really matter how much bandwidth is available between your home network and the Internet when somebody on the network is dominating the bandwidth. If somebody on your network is [...]

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Karoo – something is in the air!

Posted on22. Jan, 2009 by iancleary.

Karoo is the only viable broadband provider for many Hull Digital readers (folks that can get wireless or decent cellular broadband access are still in a very small minority I would say). Consequently there is a great deal of interest in the Karoo range of products and services, especially when we talk about faster broadband and fairer [...]

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Karoo Apologises for Web Disruption

Posted on02. Jan, 2009 by admin.

There is a very amusing thread happening over on the This is Hull and East Riding website about the internet disruption caused by Karoo last night.
Of particular note in the comments on the article is this one post by Hull Gold which seems to perfectly sum up the situation:
This was because like all proper cities [...]

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Your City Needs You – Petition to Ofcom

Posted on01. Jan, 2009 by admin.

Ofcom has consistently failed in its terms of reference and obligations in ensuring that the conditions for competition in the provision of electronic communication services exist within the Kingston upon Hull 01482 dialling code area under section 3b of the Telecommunications Act of 2003 detailed as “Ofcoms statutory obligations” This petition is force Ofcom into [...]

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Karoo Win Two Awards Shock

Posted on18. Dec, 2008 by admin.

Karoo are Hull’s one and only broadband provider, and, the truth be known, one of the region’s biggest problems.
With no choice, and essentially a monopoly, the people of Hull, normal familes and web gurus, are stuck with this ISP, leadng to a vocal volume of dissent. Their 8mb service is far from 8mb, although it [...]

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