Ranked #3 of 11

Onecom

The UK's largest independent business communications provider: mobile, connectivity, cloud comms and IT

  • Connectivity & Broadband: offered
  • Telephony, VoIP & Mobile: offered
  • Managed IT & Cyber Security: offered
  • Business Energy: not offered

Reviewed June 2026

Onecom is headquartered in Fareham and widely regarded as the UK's largest independent unified communications provider. It's been a long-standing Vodafone strategic partner, and its roots go back to 2002 when it traded as Premier Telecom. Growth has come largely through acquisition, Olive Communications, the 9 Group, Matrix IT and others, and it now supplies business mobile, fixed connectivity, hosted and unified communications, contact centre, and managed IT and cyber services to tens of thousands of UK businesses. It does not operate in the business energy market.

Our verdict

Onecom scores 77/100 (Very good) and ranks #3 overall. SMEs and mid-market organisations that want a single UK partner to bring together Vodafone business mobile, fixed connectivity, cloud telephony, contact centre and managed IT and cyber services. A good fit if vendor accreditation and scale matter more to you than rock-bottom transparent pricing.

Strengths

  • UK's largest independent business comms provider with serious scale (650+ staff, hundreds of thousands of mobile users and 70,000+ UC seats)
  • Exceptionally strong Vodafone relationship, named Vodafone Strategic Partner of the Year for a record run of consecutive years, giving competitive mobile/airtime access
  • Genuinely broad single-supplier stack: mobile, fixed connectivity, hosted voice, contact centre, managed IT and cyber under one roof (true convergence play)
  • Strong vendor accreditations across Vodafone, Microsoft, Zoom, Five9 and Zendesk plus ISO 27001 / ISO 22301 / Cyber Essentials
  • Proprietary OneCloud platform and in-house provisioning/support for an end-to-end managed experience

Watch-outs

  • No business energy offering, buyers wanting comms plus energy under one supplier must look elsewhere
  • Acquisition-led growth (Olive, 9 Group, Matrix IT and others) can mean inconsistent systems, branding and service experience across legacy customer bases
  • Trustpilot is solid overall (4.0/5) but a notable ~9% 1-star tail, with recurring complaints around contract terms, billing and early-termination/auto-renewal
  • Bespoke quote-based pricing means limited up-front transparency for smaller buyers comparing costs
  • Mobile proposition is tied to Vodafone, single-network reliance rather than multi-network choice

How it scores

Breadth of service 78
Reputation & reviews 74
Support & service 70
Reliability & track record 82
Value for money 64

Services

Telephony, VoIP & Mobile

  • Business mobile contracts (Vodafone)
  • 5G for business
  • Hosted VoIP (Onecom Vox)
  • Unified communications / UCaaS
  • Microsoft Teams calling (Connect4Teams)
  • Zoom Phone
  • Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS)
  • AI / omnichannel contact centre
  • Business IoT / SIM connectivity

Connectivity & Broadband

  • Business broadband
  • FTTP (full fibre)
  • SOGEA
  • Full fibre Ethernet / leased lines
  • EFM, GEA, MPLS, point-to-point (P2P)
  • SD-WAN & SASE

Managed IT & Cyber Security

  • Managed IT support & professional services
  • Cloud solutions (OneCloud)
  • Microsoft 365
  • Cloud migration
  • Cyber security services (Onecom CyberProtect)
  • Cloud backup / disaster recovery
  • Security awareness training (PhishProof)

Accreditations & partners

Accreditations

  • ISO 27001 (Information Security Management)
  • ISO 22301 (Business Continuity Management)
  • Cyber Essentials
  • Crown Commercial Service supplier (G-Cloud framework)
  • Five9 Certified Integrated Network Partner

Key partners

  • Vodafone
  • Microsoft
  • Zoom
  • Five9
  • Zendesk
  • Mitel
  • Aruba / HPE
  • Samsung

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