Moving office? Order the broadband before the boxes.

The furniture is booked, the lease is signed, and three weeks before the move someone asks about internet — discovering that broadband lead times run weeks and leased lines run longer. The new office opens with staff hotspotting from phones and card machines dead. The rule that prevents all of it: the moment premises are confirmed, order connectivity — before the removal van, before the desks. We check what the new building can actually get (full fibre availability varies wildly street to street), order with the move date as the deadline, and arrange 4G/5G as day-one cover if the install lands late. An office with internet and folding chairs works; the reverse doesn't.

Your phone number moves with you — on a cloud system, a geographic number works anywhere, so the 01902 number stays even if the office doesn't (see keeping your number). If you're still on old lines, the move is the natural moment to go cloud: port once, into a system that never ties you to an address again. WiFi should be surveyed in the empty building — before furniture and people complicate the radio picture — so access points are cabled during fit-out, not bodged after. Sequenced properly, the actual cutover is a weekend: connectivity live, phones re-homed, WiFi tested, and Monday morning is just… Monday morning. That anticlimax is the product.