Karoo Looses Internet - Hull Goes Dark…
It happened again!
Karoo - the demon spawn ISP of Hull’s much bemoaned monopolistic telephone overlords KCOM - has managed to yet again destroy the city’s ability to connect to the t’interweb.
From piecing together odds and sods from various sources (and from being one of the poor buggers having to use KC) it looks like the outage downed all internet services delivered by KCOM.
The fault which lasted over 8 hours, is alledged to have downed essential services, residential broadband, and businesses utilising credit card equipment connecting back through an ADSL connection.
As usual users from the unofficial karoo forums have jumped onto the problem and are debating it, so if you’re interested, jump in and have your say!
Karoo last dropped Hull off the internet in January this year, and August last year. Bad times.
The Register are covering the story here.
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August 12th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Bad times? A pretty good level of service in general and don’t forget the local broadband market is open to competition. Where are all the other ISPs? We all make a tough crowd to please at the best of times!
August 12th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Hi Rachel,
Have you ever talked with any of these other companies and asked them why they won’t come to Hull?
They’re not just sulking. KC charge an order of magnitude more than BT charge for links back to the internet on a business basis. It’s just not economical for outside providers to bother setting up here.
Have you ever wondered why there are so few call-centres or high-technology companies in Hull? It’s because KCOM are way too expensive for higher end business products.
Businesses can’t afford to set up here because of the price of comms, and they can’t afford to put their trust in a provider who looses the internet every few months.
Rachel, I see from your blog that you’re trying to sell Hull to the masses, but please don’t argue about things you obviously haven’t looked into too deeply.