Operations
The KCOM Group is now a group of companies including KC (formerly known as Kingston Communications), Kcom (formerly known as Affiniti), its business integration and services arm and Eclipse, its national Internet Service Provider.
KC's Hull operation covers a relatively small geographical area. Although it is under the same Ofcom and EU obligations in terms of local loop unbundling the market is relatively small and the economics generally do not justify entry by other companies.
A further complication for any would-be rival of KC is that in Hull the first 1 km of wire from the exchange has a cross-section of 0.3 mm sq, as opposed to the standard 0.5 mm sq, requiring a more expensive DSLAM in the telephone exchange for providing an ADSL service.
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