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Business Telecoms & IT in The Midlands

IT 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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Business in The Midlands

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.

Your The Midlands contact

Based in Shipston-on-Stour, with coverage across the region.

Towns with their own page

48 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.

The Midlands — common questions

The Midlands is a huge area. Is one director really covering it?

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.

Manufacturing dominates a lot of the Midlands. What comes up most?

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.

Do you cover the whole of The Midlands?

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.

Who would I be dealing with in The Midlands?

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.

We have sites across The Midlands. Can they run as one system?

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.

What happens to our old phone lines in The Midlands in 2027?

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-off

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