Business Telecoms & IT in Shoreham-by-Sea

It affects anything mounted outside — external access points, cameras and cabling all corrode far faster within sight of the water than they do inland. The answer is specifying for the environment rather than replacing the same equipment every two years: weather-rated enclosures, the right ingress rating on anything external, and keeping active equipment inside where the design allows it.

Both need moving before January 2027, and they are exactly the connections that get forgotten because nobody thinks of them as phones. An alarm dialler moves to an IP or mobile-based signalling path, and a gate intercom moves to an IP equivalent. It is worth auditing every line into a port site rather than only the ones with a handset attached, because the forgotten ones are the ones that fail quietly.