Eclipse

[The Snowman]

Why don't Kcom offer Eclipse Broadband as an alternative to Karoo?

[Adrian]

Why would they 

[The Snowman]

Opening the market with competion. Kcom is the parent company and Karoo and Eclipse are two of their brands, why not offer both.

It's General Motors owning Chevrolet and Vauxhall, they don't badge all their cars GM, they offer two brands, there's no reason why Kcom couldn't do this if they're all for opening up the broadband market in Hull.

[willcocks]

This would offer no competition?

[bobthebuilder]

Eclipse Internet are the latest broadband provider to launch a range of broadband products based on the BT fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) technology that has so far seen a slow take up with service providers. This isn't too much of a surprise as not many exchanges are actually enabled for the fibre service which sees fibre run to street-side cabinets. There will likely be a spurt of take up once availability has increased.

The Eclipse products are set to go live on the 12th of April and will give users a maximum speed of 40meg, but with a guaranteed throughput of 12meg. Two products will be available - Eclipse Fibre and Eclipse Fibre Pro which see a difference in the usage allowance and the upload speed. Eclipse Fibre comes with 2meg upload and a 50GB usage allowance, Fibre Pro has a 10meg upload speed and a 60GB allowance. It's also worth noting that these broadband packages are aimed at the business user rather than home users.