Business Telecoms & IT in East Sussex
SCG Solutions covers East Sussex through Nick Thomas, based in Worthing. Cloud telephony, connectivity, business mobiles and network security, with the buying power of the Southern Communications Group behind them.
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Business in East Sussex
East Sussex holds two coastal economies that could hardly be less alike. Brighton is small creative, digital and professional firms — agencies and studios of five to fifty people, many in converted upper floors around the Lanes — alongside a conference trade and two universities. Twenty miles east, Eastbourne runs on visitors and on a very large care sector that reflects its demographics and does not stop at any hour. One is bandwidth-hungry and has nobody in IT; the other needs to be contactable around the clock and has monitoring equipment on lines that will not survive 2027.
Towns we cover in East Sussex
Each one has its own page — the local business landscape, who covers it and the questions that come up there.
What we do for East Sussex businesses
Cloud Telephony
Hosted phone systems that work wherever your team does.
Microsoft Teams Calling
Turn Teams into your business phone system.
Managed Internet
Leased lines, broadband and connectivity that stay up.
Business Mobiles
Flexible mobile plans across every major UK network.
Network Security
Firewalls, monitoring and protection for your data.
Your East Sussex director
Nick Thomas covers East Sussex from Worthing. One named person, reachable directly.
East Sussex — common questions
Brighton is full of small creative and digital firms. What do they typically get wrong?
Buying for download when the constraint is upload. Sending large files out on business broadband is several times slower than receiving them, which is exactly the wrong way round for studio and agency work. The second is committing to a circuit term longer than the lease, in a city where a great many of these businesses move every few years.
We are a seafront business in Eastbourne or Hastings. Does the seasonality change anything?
It changes what you should commit to. Licences and seats can flex up for the season and back down, so a summer team does not set the winter bill. Connectivity cannot, so it should be sized for August rather than January — a connection that only copes in the off-season is not a saving, it is a failure deferred to the month you can least afford it.
Do you cover the whole of East Sussex?
We work across East Sussex generally, and we have pages for Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings because those are the places we are most often in. Nick Thomas is based in Worthing and covers the county. If your town is not listed it does not mean we cannot help — it means nobody has written that page yet, so ring and ask.
Who would I actually be dealing with in East Sussex?
Nick Thomas, directly, on 01903 968831. Not an account queue and not a different person each time. Behind that sits the Southern Communications Group — the carrier relationships, the buying power and a support desk that runs around the clock — so a small business in East Sussex is priced inside a national account while dealing with someone local.
What does SCG Solutions do for businesses in East Sussex?
Cloud telephony and Microsoft Teams calling, business internet from broadband to leased lines, business mobiles across every major UK network, and network security — with IT support, cloud hosting and business continuity behind them. What that looks like in practice varies a lot across East Sussex, which is why each town has its own page rather than one county-wide answer.
We have sites in more than one East Sussex town. Can that be one system?
Yes, and it is usually cheaper as well as simpler. One cloud phone system spans every site with internal dialling between them, one bill rather than several, and calls that can be answered at whichever site has someone free. Multi-site is the case where the group buying power tells most, because you are pricing several connections and licence counts at once rather than one.
The 2027 switch-off affects East Sussex too. Every analogue and ISDN line in the UK stops working in January 2027. If you are not sure what that means for your lines, the detail is worth ten minutes.
Read about the switch-offReady to sort your East Sussex telecoms?
Tell us what you have now and where it's letting you down. No obligation — just a conversation about what's right for your business.
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