Hi D
KC (KCOM) use their national porting agreement outside Hull in order to port (number transfer) between KCOM and all other CP's. KC use this "reciprocol" agreements in the KC East Yorkshire Expansion area's of Gilberdyke, North Cave, South Cave etc where KC has expanded their network into these areas using a combination of fibre optic cables, street cabinets and short distance copper where they can also provide broadband services.
This agreements allow's end users to retain their existing phone number but with a new physical connection enabling users to easily transfer services between providers such as KC, Talk Talk, Vigin and BT OUTSIDE the 01482 Hull area where Ofcom have helped create a very competitive market.
KC argue that this agreement does not include for KC fixed line services in the Hull area. In the old fixed telecoms world you could only port to the same physical location.
I would strongly argue that as we are in the new VoIP world and that KC have no wish to offer VoIP to customers of its fixed line services in the KC area Ofcom should force KC under its current porting agreement to allow other communication providers to migrate numbers to its platforms in line with the rest of the UK. Under this reciprocol arrangement, this would also allow KC to migrate numbers back to them should the end user wish this.
Why dont Ofcom seek to create the same competitative market for Hull?
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Good luck to the One Point in achieving this as this would help create the opportunity for the introduction/ delivery of VoIP SIP trunking services in the Hull area over shared wireless, SDSL, Ethernet and dedicated ADSL IP service connectivity services without the requirement for Hull businesses to pay for expensive dedicated ISDN30 services - just like in the rest of the UK !!!!
PN
