founded 2004 headquarters newark on trent nottinghamshire england uk key people tim radford chairman ben marnham ceo harry pepper cfo chris tombs chief operating officer products broadband services unified communications hosting services private wide area networks mobile device management website timico.co.uk timico is an independent internet service provider in the united kingdom supplying a range of business ip and communications services . contents 1 company overview 2 acquisition history 3 newark data centre 4 products and services 5 blogging and publicity 6 external links 7 references company overview edit timico is the trading name for timico technology group ltd. timico gained a top 10 place in the sunday times tech track fastest growing companies list 1 and in 2009 were ranked 7th in the deloitte technology fast 50 . timico was founded by tim radford who previously ran project telecom a mobile service provider which was sold to vodafone in 2003 for 162m . 2 the company moved into purpose built offices in newark on trent nottinghamshire in january 2007 from the chairman s family barns which previously housed the company . timico announced 3 its intention to float the company on the alternative investment market in may 2014 but later abandoned these plans citing poor market sentiment . 4 timico was confirmed as the new sponsor of the cheltenham gold cup in december 2015 . 5 timico appointed ben marnham as the new chief executive officer on 1 september 2016 . 6 acquisition history edit timico has acquired eight smaller companies including business isps a managed it service provider unified communications provider and a mobile applications specialist . 2004 atlas internet 7 which has been consolidated into timico 2009 keconnect and twang 8 which have been consolidated . twang was acquired at 1 625 000 9 2010 newnet 10 which now forms its partner services division acquired for 2 350 000 . 11 newnet operates an access network utilising local loop unbundling from 11 exchanges in and around fareham 12 2010 handheld pcs 13 a business which specialised in media capture software for mobile devices which was acquired for 400 000 14 has been consolidated into timico 2011 powernet 15 which was consolidated into timico in december 2013 and now forms its managed networks division 2012 redwood telecommunications 16 which was acquired for an undisclosed sum . redwood was consolidated into timico in june 2013 and now forms its unified communications division 2015 wirebird 17 a managed services and it consultancy business which was acquired for an undisclosed sum and was rebranded timico technology services in march 2015 18 2015 coms 19 which was acquired for 2.5 m and comprised the brands adsl24 actimax cloudxl and universal . it has been fully consolidated into timico newark data centre edit work began in 2011 to build a 7m combined office and data centre 20 to cope with business expansion and new virtualised hosting services . the facility was officially opened by newark mp patrick mercer on 18 january 2012 . 21 the opening ceremony was included in an itv central news article about cloud computing . 22 the tier three facility contains two 2 000 square foot data halls each with 72 racks for co location . virtualised computing and storage is provided by cisco s unified computing system and emc s vnx platform . network infrastructure utilises a juniper mx80 ip switching platform with 10gbit s fibre internet connectivity . 23 hrh the duke of kent visited the facility in september 2013 . 24 chancellor george osborne also toured the data centre and met technical apprentices while campaigning for the 2014 newark by election . 25 products and services edit timico provide products and services in four main categories data networks leased lines efm and ethernet connectivity private wide area networks pwan fibre broadband adsl xdsl & ethernet hardware unified communications & telephony unified communications sip trunks hosted and on site voip solutions skype for business inbound services fixed line calls and line rental contact centre technologies hosting cloud & data centre services virtual private servers dedicated server hosting domain names colocation hosted security microsoft sharepoint microsoft azure mobile services mobile service provision utilising the o2 26 and vodafone networks smart device supply mobile device management mobile access management mobile applications development blogging and publicity edit timico s former cto trefor davies a prolific blogger has employed unusual tactics to highlight internet industry issues and causes including using a pigeon to highlight the problem of slow broadband speeds in lincolnshire in september 2010 . 27 on 5 january 2012 an attempt to beat the world record for the most number of comments on an online news article in 24 hours ran 28 in support of the rnli . 29 more than 5 000 unique comments were made but following verification from the guinness world records it was confirmed this did not beat the official world record which is held by a japanese recording artist who achieved more than 56 800 comments to his blog in 2011 . 30 trefor left timico on 20 december 13 to develop his blog into a commercial venture . 31 external links edit http www.timico.co.uk timico homepage http www.timico.com timico technology services http partners.timico.co.uk timico partner channel division references edit harris janet . timico 23rd fastest growing technology company . techwatch . white dominic 6 august 2003 . vodafone buys project telecom . the telegraph . london . retrieved 6 august 2003 . timico planning 55m stock float . city am . retrieved 12 may 2014 . baker richard . cloud hanging over stock market flotation scuppers 15m plans . nottingham post . retrieved 29 may 2014 . timico unveiled as new gold cup sponsor . racing post . retrieved 21 december 2015 . new chief executive for technology company timico . nottingham post . retrieved 30 august 2016 . richardson tim . timico snaps up atlas internet . the register . retrieved 2 november 2004 . timico rebrands recently bought keconnect twang.net . telecom paper . retrieved 11 june 2009 . timico technology group 2008 accounts timico acquires newnet plc . thinkbroadband . retrieved 1 february 2010 . timico technology group 2009 accounts llu operators newnet . samknows . retrieved 28 february 2009 . timico acquires handheld pcs . comms business . retrieved 7 october 2010 . timico technology group 2010 accounts timico acquires powernet . comms dealer . retrieved 3 june 2011 . timico technology group gobbles redwood . the register . retrieved 9 february 2012 . mcgarrigle padraig . timico purchases managed services provider wirebird . mobile news . retrieved 19 may 2015 . robinson dan . nottinghamshire technology firm timico continues growth with rebranding . nottingham post . retrieved 2 march 2016 . cunert paul . told ya coms flogs telco arm to timico in 2.5 m deal . the register . retrieved 26 may 2015 . tresider richard . timico s 7m investment to reap 150 new jobs . nottingham post . retrieved 7 february 2011 . 5m data centre opens up world of opportunity . nottingham post . retrieved 19 january 2012 . what is cloud computing . itv central news . broadcast on 19 january 2012 at 18.00 gmt . timico selects bt inet to deliver uk wide private cloud services . thedatachain.com . retrieved 25 october 2011 . timico gets the royal seal of approval . business link . retrieved 24 september 2013 . chancellor spends time in newark in by election push . newark advertiser . retrieved 19 may 2014 . o2 data centre of excellence pigeon beats broadband in lincolnshire . bbc news . 16 september 2010 . retrieved 16 september 2010 . warman matt 5 january 2012 . all aboard for an online commenting world record . the telegraph . london . retrieved 5 january 2012 . arthur charles 5 january 2012 . briton seeks commenters to help set record and raise 100 000 for rnli . the guardian . london . retrieved 5 january 2012 . world record attempt the results are in . trefor.net . retrieved 11 january 2012 . bit of news trefor davies to leave timico at christmas . trefor.net . retrieved 20 december 2013 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title timico & oldid 743923913 categories internet service providers of the united kingdomcompanies based in nottinghamshirehidden categories use dmy dates from january 2013use british english from january 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version 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