Talking products since 1986
1986
- The year our founders started in the telecoms business.
- Also, British Telecommunications plc, O2 (Cellnet)and Vodafone were all new companies
- Mobiles were huge and called “Bricks” – we know, we had one!
- Years later some strange new names emerged, including Google and Apple?
- Wow – we’re old!
2025 – Hello VOLTEL
- VOLTEL now continues the journey started four decades earlier. Backed by unrivalled experience, today’s technology lets us design the products YOU tell us YOU want.
Why “VOLTEL”? – Because we use VoLTE (it’s NOT VoIP!)
VoLTE; it's similar to VoIP, just more advanced and gives you higher quality voice calls. All VOLTEL products use VoLTE. It still uses data to transmit voice calls, yet as only VoLTE data has priority over VoIP and does not use variable quality local internet, you benefit from :
Quality,
Security, and
Reliability.
Meet the team
DARREN.
The Clever IT man!
Darren has been in the Telecom Industry since 2001 and in that time has owned several successful Internet Service Providers.
Darren was present at the birth of Broadband, saw the potential that 3G brought to the Telecoms market and then saw the introduction of 4G/5G and Fibre Optic Broadband.
Darren has a wealth of knowledge that only comes with being in the industry.
Interesting facts
Darren said Broadband would never take off, as who would pay upwards of £75 per month for Internet Access at Home! How wrong he was.
A fully qualified Scuba Diver he has dived all over the world.
Darren once shared a train journey with the incredible Agony Aunt, Denise Robertson, MBE from ITV’s This Morning.
ANDREW.
Administration freak
A qualified Chartered Secretary who has worked in City Merchant banks and also as a company secretary with a FTSE 100 public food company and a number of Investment Trusts. He attempts to control Darren and the business, as well as turning product design requests into reality.
He set up his first telecoms business, Streamline SP, in 1986. He then started to design telecoms products and in 2023 joined forces with Darren to launch a new Internet Services Provider.
Interesting Facts
Andrew lived on the Isle of Wight and raced in yachts and a powerboat; often supporting the local RNLI team when they needed to get somewhere fast.
Ex military. He once caused a commotion in Berlin when, having driven passed the Russian War memorial, he ordered his Tanks to accelerate towards the Brandenberg Gate and the Berlin Wall, just to see if the Russian guards would react. (They did. Quickly!).