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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.

Hull for those of you who don’t know - it is a city which is trying really hard. Hull is working its arse off to drag itself out of economic and social decline and to establish itself as a ‘top 10 digital city’.

After years of treating this as back page news, the local media really seem to have got behind the people to protest about the Kingston Communications monopoly here in Hull.

The Hull Daily Mail have published details of a poll on the Prime Ministers Petitions site urging:

“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to scrap the monopoly that Kingston Communications hold in Hull for broadband users.”

So far, the response has been pretty good. As I write this, there are 1,259 signatories. That’s over one thousand in the single day the petition was advertised by the Hull Daily Mail.

The BBC are helping out too. Check out this video giving some background on the problems we face here in Hull.

The more publicity we bring to this, the better our chances of fighting against the suppressive monopoly that stifles the economic development of Hull. If you can, I ask that you take the time to write on your website or blog a little piece on what’s happening here in Hull to help spread the word.

For more information, you can always check out the unofficial Karoo Forums website.

Thanks for reading.