The Onecom Blog

Imagine having to walk for seven miles a day to find water – and even when you get some, it comes from a contaminated source. That was the reality for a community living in Manicaland, a province in the north eastern highlands of Zimbabwe, until water cooler supplier AquAid stepped in with a little help […]

Onecom, the UK’s leading business telecoms and cloud communications provider, has added thousands of fixed line and cloud customers and hundreds of channel partners to its portfolio in a deal with 9 Group. As part of the transaction 9 Retail, which has over 5,000 telephony, hosted voice and on-premise customers, becomes a Onecom Group company […]

Onecom announces another strand to its strategic partnership with Vodafone, with a five-year agreement to add market leading Vodafone Software Defined Networking Solutions to its OneCloud Managed Service Platform. Onecom, leading business telecoms and cloud communications provider, has strengthened its strategic partnership with Vodafone with the addition of SIP and SD-WAN connectivity to its market […]

Business telecoms specialist Onecom has launched a new product that enables users to make and receive phone calls directly from Microsoft Teams – at low cost and wherever they are working. Onecom CallTeams integrates seamlessly with an organisation’s existing telephone systems and has been launched in response to customer demand for a solution that enables […]

Onecom has acquired its closest rival, Olive Communications, in a move which creates the largest business-to-business mobile, fixed-line and cloud specialist in the UK. Together, Onecom and Olive will provide services to more than 500,000 corporate and business end users this year, generating combined annual turnover of more than £140m. The acquisition was supported with […]

Many people thought 2020 was going to be the year that 5G came into its own – and then it wasn’t. Although it’s had a slower start than hoped (and for very good reasons!), the mass rollout of fifth-generation mobile network technology is just around the corner. 5G promises lightning-fast speeds and low latency. It’s […]

We’re thrilled to have scooped a number of awards over the past 12 months. Thanks to our talented and hardworking people, supporting customers during a challenging year, we’ve achieved recognition for excellence in customer service, being leaders in our industry and for how we look after our staff. Here’s a round-up of the year and […]

Here we go again! It may be a new year, but the start of 2021 feels very 2020-ish – we’re encouraged to work from home wherever possible, and if you have kids then they are probably homeschooling. We’ve all been here before so we know the challenges and opportunities it can bring. Hopefully any initial […]

We may have been locked down for much of the year but nothing could stop Onecom’s amazing people baking, running, swimming, cycling and getting dressed up to raise thousands of pounds for our chosen charity, YoungMinds. As 2020 draws to a close, we’re proud to look back on all we have achieved for this brilliant […]

Over the course of this year we’ve turned to technology for communication, work, productivity – pretty much everything! Good tech has been a lifeline in helping businesses through the pandemic. In doing so, we’ve accelerated the growth of many trends that were already in place, and as a result, the way businesses operate may have […]