Fareham: Onecom enters Northern Ireland market
1 February 2017
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The UK’s largest independent telecommunications provider, Onecom, headquartered near Fareham, has entered the Northern Ireland market by opening a new regional office in Belfast. Onecom now operates from 12 regional offices throughout the UK and employs more than 400 staff.
Onecom is making an investment of more than £5 million in the Northern Ireland operation and expects to employ 30 people in Belfast within five years.
The local team will be led by Paul Lawther, head of mobile sales for NI, alongside business development managers Stuart Lunn, Mark Fraser and Darren Brown.
Onecom aims to provide innovative solutions to businesses in Northern Ireland that will offer them a simple way of bringing together mobile, fixed-line, data and IT services as one integrated, cost-effective “total communications” package, helping them to achieve greater productivity and efficiency and a better experience for their customers.
Jason Waterworth, sales director, said: “Onecom has achieved significant growth by investing in our people and processes, and by delivering great customer service. We are committing to Belfast for the long term, with the aim of being the largest and fastest growing independent provider of communications in Northern Ireland.”
Lawther said: “Marrying Onecom’s expertise with the local knowledge of our Belfast team, I believe we can bring real, tangible value and genuine innovation to businesses in Northern Ireland. Onecom really is the new name in business telecoms in Northern Ireland.”
Onecom is Vodafone UK’s largest enterprise partner, managing more than 325,000 mobile connections and delivering communication services including fixed line, mobile, broadband and cloud computing to some of the UK’s most dynamic companies.
