Skip to content
Cyber Risk Calculator

Business Telecoms & IT in North Somerset

SCG Solutions covers North Somerset through Mike O'Shea, based in Clevedon. Cloud telephony, connectivity, business mobiles and network security, with the buying power of the Southern Communications Group behind them.

Talk to us about North Somerset

General enquiries Mon–Fri, 9am–5pm · Fault reporting 24/7/365

Business in North Somerset

North Somerset runs from the Bristol commuter belt down to a seaside economy, and the two ends want opposite things. Portishead and Nailsea are full of people running real businesses from spare rooms and small offices, where the question is whether a domestic connection can carry business work. Weston-super-Mare lives on visitors, where the question is how to carry a summer at full capacity without paying for it in February. Clevedon sits between them with the professional firms and independents that serve both.

Towns we cover in North Somerset

Each one has its own page — the local business landscape, who covers it and the questions that come up there.

Your North Somerset director

Mike O'Shea covers North Somerset from Clevedon. One named person, reachable directly.

North Somerset — common questions

We are in Portishead or Clevedon rather than Bristol. Does that change what is available?

It changes what is available in the ground rather than what we can do. Full fibre has reached much of North Somerset but coverage is genuinely patchy street to street, so the answer comes from checking the specific address rather than the town. Where nothing fixed is deliverable in a workable timescale, a 5G circuit is a real primary connection here rather than a compromise.

Our Weston-super-Mare business is seasonal. Can the costs follow the trade?

The people-shaped ones can. Licences, seats and mobile lines can be added for a season and removed afterwards, so a summer team does not set the bill for February. Circuits cannot: a line is committed for its term whatever the trade. So the sensible design flexes the licensing and sizes the connection for the peak rather than the average.

Do you cover the whole of North Somerset?

We work across North Somerset generally, and we have pages for Clevedon, Portishead, Weston-super-Mare and Nailsea because those are the places we are most often in. Mike O'Shea is based in Clevedon 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 North Somerset?

Mike O'Shea, directly, on 0117 325 8531. 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 North Somerset is priced inside a national account while dealing with someone local.

What does SCG Solutions do for businesses in North Somerset?

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 North Somerset, which is why each town has its own page rather than one county-wide answer.

We have sites in more than one North Somerset 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 North Somerset 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-off

Ready to sort your North Somerset 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.

Contact the North Somerset team

What do you need?

It's easy to talk to us