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About Us

Solway Communications provides superfast broadband to Cumbria, giving users a guaranteed speed and covering homes, businesses and schools. A totally unlimited service, with symmetrical speeds, 99.9% uptime and 0.001% packet loss, this is a new kind of broadband for the demanding user of today’s internet.

For over three years now we have been helping small and medium enterprises (SME’s), schools and residential properties in Northwest Cumbria and Dumfriesshire and more are joining us every day.

Why? Well not only can we provide a service like no other, we are also local, accessible and understandable.

Above all, we are dedicated and professional – what we offer is what you get and that’s our promise. Contact the Solway team today.

Meet The Team

Nick Kittoe, Managing Director

Nicholas has many years’ experience of finance and of running businesses, big and small. His burning desire is to get Carlisle and the Solway recognised as the best Internet-connected area in the UK. When not in the office, he can be found nurturing Thurstonfield Lough as a wild-life reserve of rapidly growing richness and diversity.

Antony Cross, Engineering Director

Antony has been with Solway from day one. His role as Engineering Director at Solway Comms is to build and maintain our top quality networks. He has extensive experience in the telecoms sector ,managing the design, installation, commissioning and operation of both internal and external communication solutions across a broad range of infrastructure developments.

Erica Campbell-Frost, Accountant

Erica has been involved with Solway Communications from the start. Her role is the accounts and administration, in the addition she handles phone calls, emails and queries at our head office in Carlisle.

Erica is a highly organised person and the cement that holds the company together.

Iwona Olender, Accountant

Iwona handles our book-keeping and office administration. It will often be Iwona who answers your ‘phone or email queries. She joined Solway Comms only recently after working for several years for two well-known local firms but has already taken a firm grip of our records and paperwork. Away from work, Iwona enjoys cooking and baking. She also loves to travel.

Tazeem Abbas, Director

Tazeem’s background is in finance and business. Prior to her move to Cumbria, Tazeem worked for, and with, local authorities in finance and project management. Her main role is to ensure that systems and procedures work effectively. Tazeem was one of the earlier customers of Solway Communications and was impressed with Solway’s high performance.

James Fell, Sales Executive

James makes sure all our customers, prospective as well as actual, get exactly the connectivity they need.  His role here is head of sales but, like everyone else here, he’ll get you answers to queries about support, gadgets – or pretty much anything. When not helping customers make correct choices, he’s to be found playing on the floor with his young family.

Linda Jamieson, Sales Executive

Linda advises customers on which package would be best suited for themselves and to offer advice and support on any technical issues that they may have with our connection.

She is based at our head office in Carlisle and is on hand to deal with any queries and questions you might have.

Philip Urwin, Network Engineer

Philip is a graduate in computer networking. He joined Solway in July 2012. His role includes setting up the networking equipment, monitoring its performance, managing customer support, trying out new configurations, testing the equipment, doing site surveys, equipment installations, troubleshooting and network administration.

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