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Business Telecoms & IT in Loughborough

SCG Solutions works with businesses across Loughborough, covered by Imrul Khandokar from Shipston-on-Stour. IT support, cyber security, cloud telephony, connectivity and business mobiles, backed by the Southern Communications Group.

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Business in Loughborough

Loughborough is a university town with an unusually strong sports science and engineering research base, and the businesses around it reflect that — sports technology, precision engineering and a science park drawing technical spin-outs — alongside distribution using the M1 and a town centre serving north Leicestershire. The university is the dominant employer and the academic calendar shapes local trade considerably. Spin-outs here have the same requirement as spin-outs anywhere: growth that cannot be predicted.

  • Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park
  • Loughborough town centre
  • the M1 junction 23 corridor
Imrul Khandokar

Your contact for Loughborough

Loughborough is covered by Imrul Khandokar, our partner based in Shipston-on-Stour.

07880 725947

Sectors we work with around Loughborough

Loughborough — common questions

We are a spin-out on the science park. What should we avoid buying too early?

Anything sized for the headcount you hope to reach. Cloud telephony scales by licence count so growth costs nothing until it happens, and buying a large system early is the classic spin-out mistake. The item worth sizing with headroom is the connection, because it is the one thing with a lead time you cannot compress.

Our trade collapses outside term time. Can costs reflect that?

They can if built to flex rather than fixed for twelve months. Licences and mobile connections can be added for term and dropped over the summer, and seasonal staff added for weeks at a time. It has to be arranged at the start — retrofitting generally means waiting for a contract to reach its end date.

We work with the university from Loughborough. Does that change the requirement?

Usually in two ways. Guest access that is genuinely separated, so visiting researchers and students on your network cannot reach your finance systems — that is configuration rather than a purchase. And a connection sized for sending as well as receiving, because collaborative research work involves moving files out, which is the direction broadband handles worst.

Often asked for around Loughborough

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 Loughborough 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.

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

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