Kingston Communications – You’ve Been Naughty…
This ain’t no technological breakdown, this is the road to Hull.
KC is naughty, very naughty indeed. Not only will KC not share its toys with the other ISPs like it’s supposed to – it hasn’t been looking after its things either…
Telling tales out of school, one cheeky chappie chips in with the news that KC are using special wire so that any companies trying to connect their kit to KCs network (like they’d have to, to sell internet in Hull and area) will find it won’t fit, and that buying compatible gear will cost them a small fortune. Mooowahahahaha!
As if that wasn’t enough KC then went and broke its connection to the rest of the world. Yup, that’s right – Unless you’re interested in browsing websites residing upon the KC network (members of the Hull UFO Society breath easy), you’ll find that your internet connectivity is flakey at best. Don’t worry though, the network only went tits up four days ago, so it should be fixed soon. Honest.
This has all been too much for Hull MEP Diana Wallis, who’s now gone and told the European Commission how naughty KC have been in the hope that they won’t be afraid to give KC the good spanking that the British government never would….
Here’s hoping!
Update: After being approached by a fellow Karoo user for help, Just Uber was happy to give a home to The Unofficial Karoo User Forums. They’re run by a nice chap called Dylan who is trying to build a place where Karoo users can talk about their experiences. You can find me in there under the name lefty 
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September 1st, 2007 at 9:57 am
[...] 1st September, 2007 It seems a lot of people are having trouble with Karoo lately. Whether it’s because I’m so used to Karoo being slow, or that I just haven’t been on the net much recently, I haven’t actually noticed any problems! Be that as it may, Karoo has become a problem to which there is no easy solution. No other company is willing to invest in such a small market, while Karoo itself seems unable or unwilling to provide enough infrastructure to cope with demand. [...]
September 19th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
ALL karoo customers should NOW get together and create an online petition to present to our member of parliament and the trading standards bureau. Maybe the monopolies commission too?
I only get 19% of my expected bandwidth at best; it’s usually worse than this!!!
If that is the best they can do then I should only pay for the bandwidth I actually have available; therefore I should only pay 19% of my monthly subscription charges, that would be much fairer and I’m sure EVERYONE out there would agree with this? – So what can we ALL do about it NOW. We (Karoo customers) must unite and pull together as an online community otherwise our complaints will fall on deaf ears or even NO ears at all! Can anyone suggest how we might go about achieving a satisfactory result?
September 19th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
F.Y.I. I wrote to watchdog; maybe we all should?
HERE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/consumer/tv_and_radio/watchdog/contact_index.shtml
Thank you for taking the time to write to BBC Watchdog…
Because we receive so many emails, faxes, letters and phone calls, we are unable to respond personally to each and every one. However, your correspondence will be read by our research team and if we are able to pursue your complaint, a researcher from the Consumer Unit will contact you.
Once again, many thanks
The Watchdog Team