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Grapevine Connect WIN Comms Business Award!
The team here at Grapevine Connect are completely delighted, chuffed and over the moon to announce that we have been crowned winners of the SMB ICT Solution category at the 2019 Comms Business Awards. The award, which was presented at a glittering gala...
Grapevine Connect Retains 3CX Platinum Partner Status
Yay.... we are proud as punch to have retained our 3CX Platinum Partner status! This prestigious accreditation is testament to our expertise in installing and maintaining 3CX Phone Systems, and we take great pride in joining an elite few other companies across the UK...
Grapevine Connect Shortlisted for Comms Business Award!
We are exceptionally proud to announce that Grapevine Connect has been shortlisted for the "SMB ICT Solution" Comms Business Award, in recognition of the innovative ways we deliver temporary and rapid internet connectivity. Now in its 15th year, the Comms Business...
Providing Van-tastic Internet Connectivity for Blue Cross Mobile Vet Clinic
Blue Cross is a charity that has been helping sick, injured, abandoned and homeless pets since 1897. They help thousands of pets in need every month, providing veterinary care, expert behaviour help and find them loving happy homes, as well as advice and education...
Peplink FusionHub: Benefits of Bandwidth Bonding & Session Persistence
Calling all Peplink users! We know that deploying a Peplink network is simple and easy using PepVPN, but have you inadvertently built in a single point of failure in your network? Or maybe you would love to use Peplink’s patented SpeedFusion service, but...
Hosted 3CX Phone System for Stunning Exmoor Hotel
What do you do when your phone system is out of date, constantly crashing and causing serious disruption to your business? This was the challenge faced by Olde World Inns at their beautiful Luttrell Arms Hotel in Exmoor. As we already provided their...
How to Improve Connectivity in Cornwall
We always enjoy engaging with new people at exhibitions, as it's good to listen to key business challenges and see how Grapevine can help to overcome them. At The Cornwall Business Show, one of the key issues we kept hearing was the lack of high speed...
Come and see us at the Cornwall Business Show!
The Cornwall Business Show is the largest, most inclusive business exhibition in Cornwall, bringing together a wide spectrum of industries and sectors, from small, start-up businesses to large, established companies. The show offers its audience a...
Protecting staff and business in adverse weather conditions
Like many businesses across the South West, we woke up this morning to a winter wonderland. Some of us at Grapevine could make it into work, and we had a pretty commute to the office. Other colleagues couldn't venture out due to being snowed in, or having emergency...
Refer us and save up to 20% on your next bill!
The best compliment we receive is a referral of our business, and we are lucky to have great customers who like what we do, and recommend us to other businesses. Introducing our refer-a-friend scheme….We want to say thank you for your part of our growth...
Overcoming Rural Internet Challenges
We love it when a customer asks us to overcome a connectivity challenge; our friends at Carpenter Oak, who create beautiful oak-framed buildings, certainly had a major rural internet issue... The problem they were constantly battling with was internet connectivity to...
South West Firm Choose Grapevine for International Telecoms
This month we installed a brand new telephone system for a customer with global reach, based in the South West; the culmination of nearly a year’s worth of meticulous system architecture design and planning. The updated infrastructure and PBX were required due to...
Office Move Made Simple
Moving office is always a very involved process and can be quite stressful. With so many things to co-ordinate, sometimes the timescales of moving phone lines, broadband, WiFi and phone systems are overlooked, which can lead to business downtime. This month, one of...
South West Business Expo
The South West Business Expo at Westpoint in Exeter - our fourth exhibition this year! Rachel Cox from Grapevine commented ‘This has been our most successful show yet - so great to talk to decision makers about how Grapevine can improve their businesses by using the...
Grapevine Connect Achieves 3CX Platinum Partner Status
The team here at Grapevine Connect are thrilled to announce that we just been awarded with 3CX Platinum Partner status! This prestigious accreditation is testament to our expertise in installing and maintaining 3CX Phone Systems, and we take great pride in joining an...
New Website!
After months of work, we are proud to finally reveal our new website! Showcasing all the clever techy stuff we do, from phone systems, to WiFi and data connectivity, our new site will be stuffed full of projects we have worked on and clever connectivity solutions. ...
New WiFi at Exe Sailing Club is Plain Sailing
Exe Sailing Club is the principle sailing club on the River Exe in Devon, and has produced Olympic winners in the sport. With a thriving membership spanning all ages and abilities, it is also an accredited RYA training centre and promotes sailing for all through...
Construction Site WiFi
All businesses need reliable high speed internet, and construction sites are no exception. But how do you get internet connectivity when you have no fixed lines? Read how we are using Peplink and 3CX to provide rapid temporary internet and telephone system solutions...
River WiFi Upgrade for Fowey Harbour
We love it when customers come to us with a connectivity challenge… and our friends at Fowey Harbour are delighted with our river WiFi solution. Read how Grapevine creatively and efficiently improved Fowey’s river WiFi in our case...
ExpoWest Exhibition
Just back from a busy three days exhibiting at ExpoWest Cornwall, talking to businesses in the hospitality and catering sector about how we can help with their connectivity and communication challenges. Really great to meet up with existing customers, and give...
Boutique Hotel Phone System and Guest WiFi
Month on month, we continue to grow our portfolio of clients adopting 3CX Telephone System. This month we have deployed an on-site 3CX telephone system using SIP trunking for a boutique hotel in Tavistock. The customer was suffering from zero support and zero features...
Rural Internet in Cornwall
Yet another rural internet deployment, and this time it really was rural. We were tasked to provide a solid internet connection to a water sports activity centre on a lake on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Traditional fixed line ADSL was only delivering 1Mbps at the very...
Peplink Power at the London Boat Show
A great day at the London Boat Show catching up with our friends at Princess Motor Yacht Sales, demonstrating the power of our Peplink WiFi routers. Oh, and the opportunity to view their gorgeous boats was an added bonus! Read how Grapevine Connect is the...
Helping Financial Planners Save Costs and Boost Productivity
It has been another busy month with installations! We have deployed a hosted 3CX system for chartered financial planners, Hansford Bell. They had the problem of an old BT system that was no longer supported; they couldn’t buy any additional handsets, and it was no...
Oh you're making us blush! Hazel, Cornwall gave Grapevine Connect 5 stars via @Trustpilot https://t.co/WiFm1dG21r Thank you @gilbertandgoode for your lovely review - we're glad we're making a difference to how you work! #TemporaryInternet #Construction @peplink
Still pinching ourselves that we actually WON such a prestigious industry award for the #ICT #connectivity & #communication work we do on a daily basis! Must be doing something right... #SDWAN @peplink @3CX @ubnt
Congratulations to @GrapevineUC for snagging our #SMB ICT Solution award! 🏆 https://t.co/f4z3UJB4XR