Pictured above: Solwise Telephony managing director
Martin Stephenson
A Midlands telephony company is celebrating after clinching
contracts to provide digital communications services for yet
another round of rock and pop festivals across the country. Solwise
has already secured contracts for Glastonbury, the V Festivals, T
in the Park, the Download Festival, T4 on the Beach, the Big Chill
and the Latitude Festival.
Now Solwise Telephony of Hinckley will be supplying telephone
links for the huge Reading and Leeds music festivals which run over
August bank holiday on August 27, 28 and 29.
In addition the company will be supplying digital communications
at the Shambala Festival in Northamptonshire from Aug 27 - 30 and
also for events at the Scottish National Stadium at Hampden Park in
Glasgow. These include a massive Paul McCartney convert on June 20.
Solwise Telephony supplies internet-based telephone systems to
businesses across the UK, and for conferences and special events.
Other events serviced by Solwise include the Chelsea Flower
Show and a Royal Horticultural Society show at Tatton Park near
Manchester.
They recently announced that they have been drafted in by
Glastonbury Festival organisers for the second year running to
provide DSL connections for the telephone system at that annual
event, giving musicians, visitors and organisers high quality and
reliable telephone communications throughout the festival.
Solwise Telephony managing director Martin Stephenson said the
company's products enabled it to provide a value-for-money
internet-based system that was very easy to install with a very
high level of call quality. The company's systems are already used
by some 600 clients including the BBC, banks, and recruitment
agencies.
"We are able to provide events such as rock and pop festivals
with DSL connectivity allowing high levels of call quality. Because
we have no minimum contract terms our installations are ideal for
exhibition purposes. We are one of the only companies in the UK
offering telephone and broadband systems on contracts as short as
seven days for special events and conferences," he said.
Solwise Telephony also supplies discounted telephone lines and
calls through BT Wholesale, and specialist business
broadband.
Earlier this year Solwise Telephony was acquired by Scottish
telecommunications group Pinnacle in a half million pound deal.