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Business Telecoms & IT in Canterbury

SCG Solutions works with businesses across Canterbury, covered by Nick Thomas from Worthing. IT support, cyber security, cloud telephony, connectivity and business mobiles, backed by the Southern Communications Group.

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Business in Canterbury

Canterbury runs on two universities and a very large visitor economy built around the cathedral and the medieval centre, with the retail, hospitality and accommodation trade that follows. Around it sits an agricultural and food production economy across east Kent. Almost the entire commercial centre is within or beside protected fabric — the city walls, listed buildings and a conservation area — which decides what can be installed far more than any technical consideration. Student terms rather than the calendar drive a good deal of local trade.

  • Canterbury city centre and the walls
  • the university quarter
  • the east Kent rural catchment
Nick Thomas

Your contact for Canterbury

Canterbury is covered by Nick Thomas, our partner based in Worthing.

01903 968831

Sectors we work with around Canterbury

Canterbury — common questions

Our Canterbury premises is listed and inside the walls. What is genuinely possible?

More than expected, provided cabling is what gets designed around rather than fought. Cloud telephony removes the on-site cabinet entirely, which takes out most of the intrusive work; where cabling cannot be run through protected fabric, wireless links between floors usually cover it. It is a survey question, and consent is rarely needed for what we end up proposing.

Our trade follows university terms rather than the year. Can costs match that?

They can if it is set up to flex rather than fixed for twelve months. Licences and mobile connections can be added for term time and dropped over the summer, and staffing peaks covered without carrying the cost through the quiet weeks. It has to be built that way at the start — retrofitting usually means waiting for a contract to end.

Often asked for around Canterbury

Based on the sectors that make up the local economy — not everything we do, just what tends to come up here.

The 2027 switch-off affects Canterbury too. Openreach plans to retire its traditional phone network by 31 January 2027. Check your phone lines, alarms and payment terminals, and plan the move with your provider.

Read about the switch-off

Canterbury sits within our wider coverage. These pages cover the same services across a broader area, with the towns beneath them.

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