KCOM Group (LSE: KCOM), formerly known as Kingston Communications, is a UK communications and IT services provider. Its headquarters is in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, where subsidiary business unit KC serves local residents and businesses with Internet and telephony services. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

On 22 August 1902, Hull Corporation (which later became Hull City Council) was granted a licence under the Telegraph Act 1899 to operate a municipal telephone system in the Kingston upon Hull area, opening its first telephone exchange in 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 was subsequently to become British Telecom (BT).

Hull's bid to renew its licence in 1914 was made conditional on the £192,000 purchase of National Telephone networks infrastructure. The council gave its approval, securing the future of the country's only remaining municipally owned telephone corporation.

Chris Whitaker (born 19 October 1974) is a retired Australian rugby union footballer. He is a much acclaimed scrum-half for Leinster in Ireland. He previously played for the New South Wales Waratahs, a state team representing New South Wales in Super Rugby.

He was constrained for many years, by the Wallabies captain, George Gregan. As such, he got minimal international game time, yet was in the squad for many a year. He first started playing rugby at Sydney Boys High School, which he attended in Sydney, and moved up through the ranks from there.

Whitaker joined Super Rugby side the NSW Waratahs in 1997. Whitaker gained his first Australian cap the next year, Whitaker played a total of 31 games for Australia and scored 10 points, he left the Waratahs in 2006, after 9 years with the club. Whitaker joined Leinster Rugby in Ireland, and won the Magners League in 2008 with Leinster before winning the Heineken Cup as vice-captain with the side in May, 2009. The final was, in fact, his last game ever before retirement. Whitaker has since become a coach with Leinster. Soon after coaching for Leinster he moved to France with his wife and three daughters to be the defence coach for Stade Francais.