26-549: [REDACTED] Look up KC , kc , or k.c. in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. KC , Kc and similar may refer to: Places [ edit ] Kuçovë District , Albania's ISO 3166-2 code Kansas City metropolitan area , a major metropolitan area of the United States Kansas City, Missouri , its principal city Kansas City, Kansas ,
52-517: A US manufacturer of driving lights Kimberly-Clark , a US personal care corporation The Kennel Club , a dog-breed registry in England Kingston Communications , a UK communications and IT service provider Air Astana (IATA airline designator) Science and technology [ edit ] K c , the equilibrium constant , the equilibrium of a chemical reaction K c , GSM Cipher Key CXCL1 or KC,
78-819: A boys' boarding high school in Zimbabwe Kuen Cheng High School , a high school in Malaysia Sports organizations [ edit ] See also: Sports in Kansas City Kansas City Chiefs , a National Football League team based in Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City Royals , a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri Sporting Kansas City or Sporting KC, a Major League Soccer team based in Kansas City, Kansas Other businesses and organizations [ edit ] KC HiLiTES ,
104-513: A choice of service provider. As Nexus only provide broadband service to businesses, several other providers offering wireless Internet access via WIMAX links have set up and have taken some of KC's customers including Pure Broadband and Connexin, both local independent companies. In September and October 2023, KCOM were embroiled in controversy when rivals started to erect wooden telegraph poles to carry their services into residential neighbourhoods, causing residents' protests. Local planning consent
130-554: A cytokine Keratoconus , a degenerative eye disease Kilocycle , as in 1,000 cycles per second, with the modern equivalent being kilohertz Other uses [ edit ] KC Stadium , a former name of a football and rugby-league stadium in Hull, England Kelly criterion , a formula in probability theory and finance King's Counsel , a legal position in Commonwealth countries KC, an obsolete postnominal for Knight of
156-788: A fictional character in Degrassi: The Next Generation K.C. Cooper , the title character in the Disney Channel sitcom, K.C. Undercover Businesses and organizations [ edit ] Schools and universities [ edit ] King's College, Hong Kong , a boys' secondary school in Hong Kong Kingwood College, now Lone Star College-Kingwood , in Kingwood, Houston, Texas, United States Kishinchand Chellaram College or K. C. College, South Mumbai, India Kutama College ,
182-461: A formality and fuelled by market expectation and not network restriction. This led to Hull gaining a reputation for being a so-called digital city , a reputation which still holds true with Hull being in the top 16 digital clusters in the UK according to Tech City's Tech Nation report. The company has been rolling out FTTH service across its footprint, and expects to have completed the rollout to 97% of
208-567: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages KC">KC The requested page title contains unsupported characters : ">". Return to Main Page . Kingston Communications KCOM Group (formerly known as Kingston Communications and latterly KC ) is a UK communications and IT services provider. Its headquarters are in the city of Kingston upon Hull , and it serves local residents and businesses with Internet and telephony services. It
234-506: Is the only fixed-line residential broadband operator in the Hull area. According to a decision from the European Commission in 2004, KCOM Group held a 100% market share in the wholesale market of broadband services in the Hull area. In December 2005, Giacom, the owner of Hull24 – a rival broadband provider in the Hull area – complained to Ofcom regarding the provision of network access to KC's rivals. The complaint
260-699: The Order of the Crescent See also [ edit ] Kansas City (disambiguation) Casey (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title KC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KC&oldid=1251490377 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
286-742: The Telegraph Act 1899 to operate a municipal telephone system in the Kingston upon Hull area, opening its first telephone exchange on 28 November 1904 at the former Trippett Street Baths. At the time, there were a number of such municipal telephone companies around the UK, all of which – with the exception of the one in Hull ;– were gradually absorbed into the Post Office Telephone department, which later became British Telecom (BT). Hull's bid to renew its licence in 1914
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#1732765544265312-410: The Hull area was rather one of overall cost-effectiveness, given the relatively small number of potential customers (190,000 homes), and the fact that many of these would be likely to remain with the incumbent supplier. In July 2009, Nexus Telecoms signed an agreement with KC enabling them to offer effective wholesale line rental and call tariffs to business consumers within the Hull area so giving them
338-630: The Sunshine Band Govinda K.C. (born 1957), Nepali orthopaedic surgeon and philanthropic activist KC or K.C. , an abbreviation for the Nepalese surname Khatri Chhetri Arts and entertainment [ edit ] KC (album) , a 2010 album by KC Concepcion KC and the Sunshine Band , an American funk, R&B and disco musical group founded in 1973 King Crimson , a British progressive rock band K.C. Guthrie ,
364-570: The company began a six-month trial of a 100 Mbit/s service in the East Riding of Yorkshire village of Woodmansey. Around 300 homes were involved in the trial. The trial was part of a plan to roll out increased speeds to more than 15,000 homes across the East Riding of Yorkshire. The service is now available for up to 45,000 properties with a further 60,000, bringing the total fibre network to 105,000 properties by 2017. KCOM's fibre to
390-531: The company's network by March 2019. The FTTH offering provides 400 Mbit/s service to residential customers and 1 Gbit/s service to business customers, with the remaining 4% of customers able to receive 75 Mbit/s VDSL2 service. In October 2019, Hull became the first UK city to have full fibre broadband available for all residents. As residents and most businesses in Hull are served only with telecoms services by KCOM, there have been complaints around Internet service provision; KCOM's broadband service
416-492: The home (FTTH) broadband internet and telephone service in Hull and surrounding areas. The company only provide broadband services to customers with a KCOM residential telephone line. KCOM formerly provided these services under the Karoo and later KC brands, until it adopted the group name across its entire business in 2016. KCOM also provides business broadband services through its Eclipse Internet subsidiary. In September 2011,
442-418: The network became fully digital. Hull has therefore remained an exception within the UK telephone network, being the only place in the UK not served by BT and is noted for its distinctive cream coloured telephone boxes and innovative services, for example becoming the UK's first fully digital network in 1989, using Marconi System X telephone switches ( Central Offices or Class 5 switches). The company
468-456: The premises product, Lightstream, requires a new fibre-optic cable be laid to each premises that is terminated inside the home in an optical network terminal (ONT). A router is then plugged into the ONT to distribute the service throughout the home. As of April 2015, the service offered software limited speeds of up to 250 Mbit/s downstream bandwidth. Due to delivery being FTTH greater speeds are
494-507: The third-largest city in the state Karachay-Cherkessia , Russia's ISO 3166-2 code People [ edit ] Kent Cochrane (1951–2014), Canadian memory disorder patient KC Concepcion (born 1985), Philippine model, actress, singer, songwriter Kcee (musician) (born 1979), Nigerian singer, songwriter, performer K.C. Potter (born 1939), American academic administrator and LGBT rights activist Harry Wayne Casey (born 1951), American musician best known for his band KC and
520-1081: Was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1999 at 225p per share, with Hull City Council retaining 44.9% of shares. The share price peaked at £15.90 per share during the dot.com boom , and it was for a while in the FTSE 100 Index . In the early part of the new millennium, the company started to pioneer services such as ADSL , Video on Demand and Digital TV . In February 2006, it announced that it would be ceasing its Video on Demand and Digital TV services (called Kingston Interactive TV – KIT) on 1 April 2006. In 2007 Hull City Council sold its remaining 30.6% stake in Kingston Communications at about 68p per share. Kingston Communications also changed its name to KCOM Group that year. In 2014, new Ofcom rules required all providers to offer broadband and phone bundles together, to offer better value to customers. Karoo's cheapest bundle
546-400: Was listed on the London Stock Exchange but is now privately owned by Macquarie Group . For historical reasons, the Hull area has no BT landlines, and the vast majority of residents and most businesses in Hull, Cottingham and Beverley are served only with telecoms services by KCOM. On 22 August 1902, Hull Corporation (which later became Hull City Council ) was granted a licence under
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#1732765544265572-538: Was made conditional on the £192,000 purchase of the National Telephone Company infrastructure in the city. The council gave its approval, securing the future of the country's only remaining municipally owned telephone corporation. The first rotary automatic exchange opened in 1922, and from 1934 Strowger exchanges were installed. Rotary and Strowger exchanges were operated to 1975 and 1988 respectively, and two crossbar exchanges to 1989, when
598-1052: Was not required under "permitted development rights". Reporting on MP Emma Hardy 's approach to Sir John Whittingdale , the minister for data and digital infrastructure, the BBC confirmed that "Under Ofcom rules, KCOM – as the area's dominant telecom provider – is required to share its infrastructure". Rival MS3 Networks commented that KCOM had historically failed to respond in a timely manner to requests to share their existing underground infrastructure. Communications provider Connexin (communications) had some local facilities, but had requested Ofcom to provide "clarity on pricing and access" to KCOM's infrastructure. In early 2024, after intervention by Graham Stuart MP conferencing Connexin with local politicians from Beverley , East Riding , Connexin started formal complaints with Ofcom against KCOM for failing to allow sharing of KCOM'S underground cabling infrastructure, causing Connexin to erect their own above-ground network. From 2002 to 2021 KCOM held
624-520: Was referred to the European Commission by Diana Wallis , MEP for Yorkshire and Humber area. In May 2008 the "Review of the wholesale broadband access markets" report published by Ofcom determined that KC was not acting in a way that would keep out rival companies, and that pricing for wholesale broadband and access to local-loop unbundling was within the market range. The main reason cited by rivals for not providing services in
650-399: Was that "Giacom alleges that Kingston is not providing [network] access on reasonable terms as Kingston's pricing is anti-competitive and prohibitive to service providers [other than KC]". In April 2006 Giacom and KC resumed negotiations on a deal to allow Hull24 to use KC's network; as a result Giacom withdrew its complaint and Ofcom closed the case. In August 2007 the alleged-monopoly of KC
676-478: Was £29.99 per month. On 4 April 2016, KCOM Group PLC moved all of its brand under a single KCOM brand name. In November 2018 KCOM issued a profit warning, cut dividends and warned debts were 10% higher than the previous year, causing a 36% drop in share price. KCOM was acquired by MEIF 6 Fibre Ltd, a business unit of Macquarie Group , in August 2019 at 120.3p per share. KCOM provides ADSL , VDSL and fibre to
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