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So your business is pretty established, in fact you’ve outgrown your current premises...so you just move offices right?...and everything goes smoothly doesn’t it?

We’re in the midst of a digital revolution. Across the North and in our home city of Manchester, the rise of new technologies and cloud services are radically transforming the way we live and work. The government investment in gigabit capable infrastructure will have a transformative effect on public services across GM and businesses can expect the new infrastructure to have a significant impact. Faster speeds, better reliability and less internet downtime are just some of the benefits of full fibre connectivity. Enabling access to a new generation of digital services will be a catalyst for innovation, promote creativity and drive the economic and social development of Manchester. Telcom’s investment in this next generation infrastructure, will, in a very short space of time have impact from the city centre to all boroughs in Greater Manchester.

Connectivity is critical to businesses ever growing demand for capacity and bandwidth. Customers have an increasing need to expand their services and deliver on a global scale. June saw the soft launch of our new division Telcom Wholesale, with the aim of disrupting the channel market, providing tailored solutions, comprehensive support and a personalised approach to communication providers. In a fast-moving business world, where customers need a flexible approach to connectivity and scalable bandwidth to run everything from cloud services to hosted telephony, our infrastructure and expertise at Telcom Wholesale are uniquely positioned to provide this.

Across our community, many people are working hard to make ends meet. Here in Greater Manchester, we want people to have a stable place to live, work and encourage small business owners to expand and people gain a high-quality education that prepares them for the workforce.

Here at Telcom we recognise that world-class internet infrastructure is essential to ensure the UK’s future competitiveness, it enables us to remain at the forefront of technology and continue the tradition of invention and innovation we are proud of in the UK. Faster and more reliable connections are transforming the way we live and work, and better connectivity supports businesses to grow. The Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme run by The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), enables small and medium-sized businesses around the UK to benefit from full-fibre connections. With most superfast connections still dependant on copper telephone wires, which are limited in the speeds they can support, a full fibre infrastructure is required to enable gigabit connection.

Five years ago, it all started out with a dream to transform Britain’s digital infrastructure. Telcom founders Shaun, Thom and Ali shared the belief that the internet is a basic human right and when readily available, is a catalyst for economic growth, technological innovation and empowerment, with life-changing impact. To realise the Telcom mission, the team set out to create a company people could feel proud of working for and a business customers felt went above and beyond that of the traditional service provider. I think our CEO Shaun put it right when he said “it’s been a rollercoaster to say the least but worth every moment” - I second that!

One of Manchester’s oldest warehouses, the refurbished Bonded Warehouse dates back to the 1860s and only had access to very basic internet infrastructure. The building, owned by Allied London has become recognised as the place in Manchester for enterprise, creativity and innovative working and is the first addition to the new St John’s project. Having a world class internet infrastructure was essential to attracting and retaining tenants.

Telcom Group today launched their not for profit, free coding school. ‘Recode’ will launch first in Bolton with 500 students nationally set to benefit over the next three years. The coding school will be a drop in facility for anyone wishing to find out about coding, offering some potential students the opportunity of a place on a three month intensive coding bootcamp. These intensive bootcamp’s will equip students with the skills they need to compete for future employment in the digital sector. The first class of 2019 will be open to budding coders from any background with no previous experience of coding necessary.