Cloud Telephony in The Midlands
Hosted phone systems that work wherever your team does.
Explore serviceIT support, cyber security, cloud telephony, connectivity and business mobiles across The Midlands — with named regional contacts and the Southern Communications Group behind them.
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This part of the Midlands is more rural than its reputation and more industrial than it looks. Coventry still runs on making things, with an automotive and motorsport base now weighted heavily towards electrification and two universities feeding it. Leamington holds the densest games development cluster outside London. Banbury sits on junction 11 of the M40 with distribution and food manufacturing at a scale the surrounding countryside does not suggest, and Evesham’s growers and packhouses treble in size at harvest. Between all of that are Shipston, Stratford and Warwick — market towns, a tourism economy built on theatres and a castle, and a county professional base. Connectivity varies more here than anywhere else on this map, which is usually the first question rather than the last.
Based in Shipston-on-Stour, with coverage across the region.
Imrul Khandokar
Based in Shipston-on-Stour
07880 725947SCG Shipston-on-StourHosted phone systems that work wherever your team does.
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Explore service48 of them in The Midlands, each with the local business landscape, who covers it and the questions that come up there. If your town is not listed, we still work there — it just means nobody has written that page yet.
Shipston-on-Stour is central to a great deal of it, which is why Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands are genuinely reachable. Lincolnshire and the far east of the region are worked partly from Bolton. What we would not claim is that Lincoln and Shrewsbury are equally close to anything — they are not, and the drive times differ.
Network segmentation, increasingly, because customer security questionnaires now ask about it directly and most businesses cannot answer. It is usually configuration on hardware you already own rather than new equipment. After that, coverage on the shop floor, which is a survey job — machinery, dust and racking defeat placement that would be fine in an office.
SCG supplies businesses across the whole UK, so the short answer is yes. The longer and more useful one: we have a director established in Shipston-on-Stour, and 48 towns in The Midlands have their own page with local detail on them. Outside those, you get the same products and the same support, from someone slightly further away.
Imrul Khandokar in Shipston-on-Stour. The published direct numbers let you speak to a named regional contact. They coordinate your requirements with the Southern Communications Group's service teams; support arrangements depend on the services and scope you agree.
Yes, and multi-site is where this arrangement is worth most. One cloud phone system spans every site with internal dialling between them, one bill instead of several, and calls answered at whichever site has someone free. You are also pricing several connections and licence counts at once, which is exactly where group buying power tells.
Openreach plans to retire its traditional phone network by 31 January 2027. Ask your provider to review the lines and any connected alarms, payment terminals or lift systems at your The Midlands sites. Check number-porting arrangements, installation lead times and power or connection backup before agreeing a migration plan.
The 2027 switch-off affects The Midlands 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-offTell us what needs to improve. We'll discuss the services, scope and next steps before you make a decision.