Comments on: Helping Us To Help You

By: stephen

stephen — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:01:20 +0000

Please bring this service to devon! We live 7 miles from our exchange and therefore can’t get broadband at all! We have to suffer from 20kb/s speeds – and with 3 teenage kids taking exams and social networking – it’s almost impossible to ever access the internet! We would obviosly be interested in fibre optic broadband, but don’t know if any of our neighbours (about 8 houses) would.
How much would it cost to create a broadband internet connection using your technology? And how many people would need to be interested to make it worth while?

Thanks, steve.

By: guy

guy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:59:37 +0000

The Dig Your Own Fibre approach is a great way to keep the costs of deploying NGA FttH to a minimum, especially the first few metres across people’s gardens and through the wall, as these aspects cause the most unit costs and often emotional grief if done by commercial contractors.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:27:45 +0000

Would you expect us to dig our own fibre to get it , Like spurn point?

By: Bren

Bren — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:38:05 +0000

Oh and let’s not forget the internet drop outs that appear to be more and more frequent these days!

By: Bren

Bren — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:37:23 +0000

HU9 area. Sick of Karoo. I pay for an 8mb connection which is throttled to 2mb… sometimes I only get one. When I first took the service it was 6 or 7mb. If you paid for a 4 course meal in a restaurant and they served egg and chips that would be false advertising… Seems acceptable for KC to simply change their terms!

Bring on change… Karoo and KC in general can then kiss my $$$

By: Mark Shepherdson

Mark Shepherdson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:37:20 +0000

I know a few people in gipsyville who would be like the service

By: Simon Price

Simon Price — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:37:32 +0000

My partner and I recently moved to the Cottingham area (HU16) and we’re quite frankly astounded at the almost stone-age area connections and shameful monopoly practices being employed in the area. Any form of alternative would benefit the people of the area and perhaps encourage the current regime to offer more competitive pricing.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:55:31 +0000

Hi I live in Hu8 area and family in Hu9, I know my family and friends as well as myself would welcome this service. I use xbox live and often watch tv online but even with kc’s top set up I’m still let down and shown up when other friends around the UK or America ect.. run far better then me. I don’t know of one person who’s happy with the service from K.C and think you would win over everyone as word spreads even with the £50 price point! I pay 30 and for what? Family also in the media business so speed and power are important as I’m sure it would be to many businesses, school’s, uni’s ect..
I hope you have the currage to run with this and roll out across the full city as I’m sure once people realised all the advantages like digital tv, music, media and video calling, they will see it’s great value for money and ditch our poor excuse for a provider!
Keep up the good work, I wish you every success and hope I’m able to take up your service in the very near future.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:08:20 +0000

Hi David, Feel free to get in touch via email with more details of your requirements. We can give you a few more details on how to get started and what the general gist of what we do is.

Hey Vincent, As you guessed, unfortunately we don’t have a branch in Canada. There is a fair bit of info on the Internet about Canadian community broadband networks however that looks pretty positive. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=community+broadband+canada – Perhaps doing it yourself as a community could be a way forward if the incumbent is letting you down

By: david mcloughlin

david mcloughlin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:53:42 +0000

Good day to you, I live in a village south of malton north yorkshire and about 5 miles from the BT exchange. The internet connection is unrelible would you be able to send all the necesary paper work to enable me to understand fully what wold be required so i can put it to the villagers and hopefully get enough intrest to make it worth your while.