Trapped with Virgin Media fibre! 8 December 2021 at 6:20PM in Broadband & internet access 12 replies 1.3K views

Marvel1

If they know others are not available e.g. Openreach, then it's a monopoly not to offer deals.

Hull for example does not have Virgin Media or Openreach https://www.cable.co.uk/broadband/guides/hull/ this is from July 2021

Neil_Jones

Marvel1 said:

If they know others are not available e.g. Openreach, then it's a monopoly not to offer deals.

Hull for example does not have Virgin Media or Openreach https://www.cable.co.uk/broadband/guides/hull/ this is from July 2021

Hull only has the whole KCOM thing for historic reasons.  That's different from not offering services because they don't want to offer them, in the case of Hull they don't offer them because there is no financial incentive to offer them, because the area has been the way it is for many decades, and they know people won't switch.

There is nothing to stop BT and Virgin coming into Hull if they really wanted to.  But the upfront costs of doing it (particularly for Virgin) make it not worth doing.