Bolton Centrex Switch Off – Telephone Systems for Schools

Futureproof Phone Systems for Bolton Schools

Tel Group are here to support your transition from your current Centrex system to a futureproof cloud telephony system.

Following the recent announcement regarding the termination of Bolton School’s Centrex telephony service, it is vital your school weighs up your options quickly and efficiently.

If this termination applies to you, your current Centex telephone system service will expire and your lines will be ceased, meaning you will be required to procure a new telephone service. Tel Group are here to support you through this process.

Specialising in the education sector and providing phone systems to 1000+ schools since 2005, we’ve received amazing feedback from our customers – testament to the hard work, proactivity, and amazing service our team provide to schools and MATs all over the country.

All our systems are tailored to our customers’ requirements, user-friendly, and cost-effective. But don’t just take our word for it – contact us to arrange a quote and get the ball rolling ahead of the Bolton Centrex Switch Off.

£5 Per User, Per Month
12 Month Contracts Available
3 Months Free Billing (With a 36 Month Contract)

To find out more, contact us

Bolton Schools Centrex Telephone System Switch off. Tel Group's Telephone Systems for Schools - Free Billing Offer

Bolton Schools Centrex Telephone System Switch off. Tel Group's Telephone Systems for Schools - £5 Offer

Bolton Schools Centrex Telephone System Switch off. Tel Group's Telephone Systems for Schools - 12 month contract offer

South Gloucestershire Centrex Switch Off – Council Feedback

Tel Group have extensive experience dealing with local authorities on Centrex terminations.

“South Gloucestershire Council engaged with Tel Group who had proactively reached out to us to aid and support our need to supply our Schools and other Partners with an alternative Solution following the notification that Centrex for our area was being decommissioned.

We communicated to all our schools and Partners to inform them of the change of services and informed them of both the replacement offer from Virgin Media and also the Proposed Solution from Tel Group, and of course the opportunity to do their own procurement exercise with other suppliers.

The majority of our schools decided that the Tel Group was the right solution for their needs, the price was very competitive and also that the engagement from them was very encouraging.

Throughout the process of the LA Schools and Partners moving across to the Tel Group Solution the support both from the front and back office has been excellent and the migrations across have been seamless, the Tel Group have communicated to South Gloucestershire throughout the process.

The feedback from our schools has been a very positive one who have all made reference to the great communication, speed and helpfulness of Tel Group.”

Tracey Harris – South Gloucestershire Council

Bolton Schools Centrex Telephone System Switch off. Tel Group's Phone Systems for Schools

What does this mean for your school?

Bolton School’s Centrex Switch Off

Bolton County Council have announced they will be shortly ceasing all of their School Centrex Telephony contacts.

If this termination applies to you, your current Centex telephone system service will shortly expire and your lines will be ceased.

This means you are now required to procure a new telephone supplier and service to prevent your lines being terminated.

We are here to guide you through the process of upgrading and ensure you get the system most suitable for your school.

The benefits of upgrading

Bolton School’s Centrex Switch Off – Telephone System Upgrade

Your current Centrex system is restrictive and offers limited functions, whereas cloud-based systems hold a variety of benefits.

Cheaper than Centrex
Cloud-based systems are less expensive and easier to maintain
Keep your numbers
Keep any numbers, making the switch over seamless
Adaptability
Quickly add new users, features, and applications as needed
Advanced Features
Such as video conferencing, voicemail to email, and much more
BT Switch Off
By upgrading to a cloud based VoIP telephone system, it will mean you are prepared for the 2025 switch off, preventing your lines from becoming obsolete
Additional Benefits
The list of benefits is substantial, from enabling remote working to integrations with school systems. Get in touch to find out more

Our telephone system offering

Upgrade ahead of the Bolton School Centrex Switch Off

We have been in discussions with local school leaders which has enabled us to fully understand the situation and develop the best solution.

£5 Per User Per Month
Significantly lower than Centrex
3 Months Free Billing*
*Get your first 3 months billing for free if you sign a 36 month contract
12 Month Contract
12 month contracts available

All impacted schools within Bolton are eligible to our £5 per seat, per user offer which includes your local, national, 03 and UK Headline mobile call charges.

You will also be entitled to 3 months free billing if you go ahead with Tel Group on a 36 month contract term. This will mean with Tel Group your ongoing telephone costs are substantially cheaper than your current Centrex bills.

In addition, we are also offering Bolton schools the option to select a 12 month contract.

Why choose Tel Group?

Experts within education communications

Specialising in the education sector and providing telephony solutions to over 1000 schools since 2005, we are proud to come highly recommended.

We have vast experience transferring schools from Centrex after this situation occurred in Birmingham in 2021, as well as South Gloucestershire schools in 2023 and we are now working to switch over Bolton schools. Because of this, we believe we are best suited in providing a competitive, high quality service.

We will be happy to book in a meeting with you and complete a site survey free of charge.

Blackhorse Primary School

I just wanted to say how pleased I am with how smoothly the install went. Aidan and Kieran were both brilliant. We are all absolutely over the moon with our new phones and I am so chuffed how easy it all was. Aidan also went out of his way to assist the Lift Engineer in getting the system in place there.

Thank you and your team for making this all happen.

Blackhorse Primary School, BS15 9RD

Debbie Beazer – School Business Manager
St Stephen’s Junior School

We have been really impressed with the new phone system Tel Group installed, the level of service we received from day one has been outstanding.

We had a few problems from our council who told us it would be impossible to port our numbers across and would need new ones, two weeks later we had our new phone system in place with Tel Group using our own numbers!

St Stephen’s CE Junior School, BS15 1XD

Kristina Parfrey – School Business Manager
Courtney Primary School

Thanks so much for installing our new telephone system. We are really pleased with it. The installation went really smoothly and the engineers were very helpful.

From my perspective the advantages of moving to Tel Group are that we can have a greater number of handsets and much more flexibility for the same price as our previous contract.

Courtney Primary School, BS15 9RD

Tasmin Griffiths – School Business Manager
Bromley Heath School

I was utterly delighted with your engineer who installed for us yesterday. He was happy and very polite and nothing was too much trouble for him.

Our installation went smoothly and any questions we had were answered swiftly by him.

He is a credit to your organisation. Please pass on my thanks to him.

Bromley Heath Infant School, BS16 6NJ

Katie Hosegood – School Business Manager
Mangotsfield CE School

Thank you for completing our phone installation today, everything was great and is all working fine.

Aidan is very professional and the installation went well, we are thrilled with our new system.

We would be delighted to recommend you to any other local Gloucestershire based schools.

Mangotsfield Primary School, BS16 7EY

Emma Tilley – School Business Manager