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Business Telecoms & IT in West Midlands

SCG Solutions covers West Midlands through Imrul Khandokar, based in Shipston-on-Stour. Cloud telephony, connectivity, business mobiles and network security, with the buying power of the Southern Communications Group behind them.

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Business in West Midlands

The West Midlands conurbation is the largest manufacturing economy in the country and the most varied within a short drive. Birmingham carries professional and financial services alongside the Jewellery Quarter’s specialist makers; Coventry runs on automotive and motorsport engineering now weighted towards electrification; Wolverhampton, Dudley and Walsall hold the Black Country metalworking trades in modern form; and Solihull is corporate offices and the NEC events economy. A supplier here deals with a listed workshop and a purpose-built corporate park in the same week.

Your West Midlands director

Imrul Khandokar covers West Midlands from Shipston-on-Stour. One named person, reachable directly.

West Midlands — common questions

We are a manufacturer in the West Midlands with an office and a shop floor. One network or two?

One network, deliberately segmented — which is not the same thing as two. The floor and the office have genuinely different requirements, and machinery, dust and steel racking defeat access points placed for an office. What matters is that a visitor, a machine and a finance PC are not all on the same flat network, which is what most customer security questionnaires are now asking about.

Our supplier questionnaires keep asking about network segmentation. What do they want?

Evidence that a device with no business reaching your finance system cannot reach it. In practice that is usually configuration on hardware you already own rather than new equipment — separating guests, machines and staff, and being able to show it. The questionnaire is the reason most West Midlands manufacturers ask us about this at all, and answering it properly is achievable.

Do you cover the whole of West Midlands?

We work across West Midlands generally, and we have pages for Coventry, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall and Solihull because those are the places we are most often in. Imrul Khandokar is based in Shipston-on-Stour 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 West Midlands?

Imrul Khandokar, directly, on 07880 725947. 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 West Midlands is priced inside a national account while dealing with someone local.

What does SCG Solutions do for businesses in West Midlands?

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

We have sites in more than one West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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

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