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Spitfire signs wholesale partnership with ISP Vorboss to bring dedicated fibre internet to businesses across London
Spitfire extends wholesale partnership with CityFibre to bring FTTP broadband services to businesses across the UK
Spitfire is appointed as the first wholesale partner of G.Network
Awarded Crown Commercial Service Public Network Service 3 Public Sector Framework
New Full MVNO agreement sees addition of Enhanced Mobile
Spitfire launch new hosted telephony system – FireSwitch - Hosted PBX 2.2
Spitfire introduces Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams
Spitfire launches Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)
Spitfire launches Spitfire Hosted PBX 2.1 telephony service
Spitfire rolls out Working from Home solutions to all employees
Spitfire Relocate the Midlands Office from Redditch To Colmore Circus, Birmingham
Spitfire soft launch Spitfire Hosted PBX 2.1 at UC Expo
Core voice network enhanced with Next Generation Switches
Spitfire add TechTalk channel on YouTube
Number of Ethernet Service providers is increased to four
Spitfire’s Midlands office celebrates its 10th Anniversary.
Spitfire introduces paperless billing.
Spitfire’s roll out of 3CX Cloud.
Spitfire’s Customer Web Ordering system launched.
Spitfire’s online Customer Portal launched.
Spitfire expand their core network with two new network nodes in Telehouse North and Equinix – allowing our customers access to the two more of the UK’s leading data centre networks.
Spitfire launch our new SIP Trunking network further improving resilience for our customers.
Spitfire’s new Webordering system launched.
The number of IT partners using Spitfire’s Partner Service exceeds 400 for the first time.
Spitfire win Comms National Awards Best Hosted Platform with SIP Communicator™ – winning an award for the second year in a row. SIP Communicator™ now supports over 10,000 users.
Spitfire start selling and installing 3CX phone systems. Allowing customers access to the world’s leading Windows based phone system.
DualStream® SF (Synthetic Fibre) launched by Spitfire – providing guaranteed voice quality combined with Fibre Broadband with automatic fail over.
Spitfire MPLS launched – delivering easy to manage multi site solutions for our customers.
Spitfire are one of BT Wholesale’s top 3 providers of Ethernet.
Spitfire win Comms National Awards Best SME Hosted Solution with SIP Communicator™.
Spitfire start advertising on Heart FM in London.
Spitfire’s new network node opens at The Printworks providing additional resilience and flexibility for our customers.
Spitfire move into 14,000 square feet new offices in The Printworks, Clapham Road, London SW9 0HP. A logistics department and second core network node is created on the ground floor
VDSL – Fibre Broadband launched by Spitfire, delivering speeds of up to 80Mbps.
The number of new Spitfire SIP Trunks being installed surpasses the number of new ISDN30e channels being installed by Spitfire.
Spitfire win Comms National Awards Service Provider of the Year Award.
Bumble the office dog is born and makes his mark on the office immediately.
Spitfire ISP enhanced by Ethernet services
Spitfire launch SIP Communicator™ hosted telephone system.
Spitfire SIP Trunks now approved for use on most major phone system manufacturers including Avaya, Panasonic, 3CX, and many new IP based phone systems.
Spitfire opens Midlands Office in Redditch.
Voice Approved Broadband launched by Spitfire, guaranteeing voice quality over ADSL and SDSL from only £21.00 per month.
Spitfire launch Ethernet services – delivering up to 10Mb dedicated Internet services for businesses.
ADSL2+ launched by Spitfire – offering increased Broadband speeds of up to 24Mbps.
Spitfire’s Hosted PBX over Voice Approved Broadband is added to the portfolio.
Spitfire SIP trunk service launched – we are one of the first SIP Trunking providers to launch a SIP service in the UK, delivering savings of over 60% compared with ISDN30e services.
Launch of Midlands division of Partner Team.
Spitfire are a finalist in Comms Channel ISP of the Year award.
Spitfire start selling leased lines using Openreach infrastructure – delivering guaranteed bandwidth to our customers.
ADSL Max launched by Spitfire – delivering Broadband speeds of up to 8Mbps.
Spitfire launch SDSL services – up to 2Mb uncontended internet access.
Taxi advertising started by Spitfire – today we are the longest running continuous advertisers on London Taxis – look out for us!
Spitfire win Avaya award for fastest growing reseller.
Spitfire sign agreement to sell, install and maintain Nortel telephone systems – competing head on with BT in this market.
Avaya IP500 launched – Spitfire one of the first authorised installers/maintainers of this ground breaking system, which is now on software version 14 and is still Avaya and Spitfire’s lead telephone system.
Spitfire broadband continues to grow with speeds of 0.5, 1 and 2Mbps, with residential broadband with a 50:1 contention ratio or business services with a contention ratio of 20:1.
Spitfire Partner Service launched, delivering outstanding advice and solutions to our IT partners.
Spitfire become one of only thirty Annex 2 licenced operators in the UK with our own interconnect into the BT national network. We still have over 7 points of interconnect into the BT network allowing us to terminate calls over our own network. This allows us to have control over call quality by routing calls over different networks.
Spitfire are one of the first ISPs to sell broadband in the UK – listed as one of the launch partners in BTs marketing in the FT/Times.
Spitfire become an Internet Service Provider with our own core network, funded by the sale of Spitfire Security Systems to ADT.
Spitfire become a switchless reseller, providing our customers with excellent value UK and international calls as an alternative to BT.
Spitfire sell first ISP services.
Spitfire move into new 7,000 square feet of new offices in the South Bank Business Centre, Ponton Road, Nine Elms – now the exact site of the new American Embassy.
Spitfire have grown to 50 staff and are one of the UKs largest Panasonic installers and maintainers.
Spitfire become BT Indirect Partner.
Spitfire win SDX fastest growing reseller award.
SDX Index launched – Spitfire one of the initial partners selling, installing and maintaining this market leading system.
Spitfire sign agreement with SDX to sell SDX phone systems.
ISDN30e launched in UK. Spitfire involved in 4 Panasonic trial sites for this new technology.
Start Spitfire Security Systems providing Burglar Alarms as well as Panasonic Phone systems, primarily to residential customers in central London.
Spitfire get approval as a system maintainer from the industry regulator.
Spitfire move into newly refurbished offices on Battersea Park Road with 5 staff.
Spitfire wins direct Panasonic account – which we hold to this day.
In April, Spitfire was started by Justin Orde in his flat. Selling office telephone systems, fax and answering machines.
| 2024 | – |
Spitfire signs wholesale partnership with ISP Vorboss to bring dedicated fibre internet to businesses across London |
| 2023 | – |
Spitfire extends wholesale partnership with CityFibre to bring FTTP broadband services to businesses across the UK |
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2023 |
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Spitfire announced as first wholesale partner of G.Network Communications Ltd |
| 2023 | – | New Full MVNO agreement sees addition of Enhanced Mobile |
| 2022 | – | Spitfire launch new hosted telephony system – FireSwitch® – Hosted PBX 2.2 |
| 2021 | – | Spitfire introduces Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams |
| 2020 | – | Spitfire launches Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) |
| 2020 | – | Spitfire launches Spitfire Hosted PBX 2.1 telephony service |
| 2020 | – | Spitfire rolls out Working from Home solutions to all employees |
| 2019 | – | Spitfire Relocate the Midlands Office from Redditch To Colmore Row, Birmingham |
| 2018 | – | Spitfire soft launch Spitfire Hosted PBX 2.1 at UC Expo |
| 2017 | – | Core voice network enhanced with Next Generation Switches |
| 2016 | – | Spitfire add TechTalk channel on YouTube |
| 2016 | – | Number of Ethernet Service providers is increased to four |
| 2016 | – | Spitfire’s Midlands office celebrates its 10th Anniversary. |
| 2016 | – | Spitfire introduces paperless billing. |
| 2016 | – | Spitfire’s roll out of 3CX Cloud. |
| 2016 | – | Spitfire’s Customer Web Ordering system launched. |
| 2015 | – | Spitfire’s online Customer Portal launched. |
| 2015 | – | Spitfire expand their core network with two new network nodes in Telehouse North and Equinix – allowing our customers access to the two more of the UK’s leading data centre networks. |
| 2015 | – | Spitfire launch our new SIP Trunking network further improving resilience for our customers. |
| 2014 | – | Spitfire’s new Webordering system launched. |
| 2014 | – | The number of IT partners using Spitfire’s Partner Service exceeds 400 for the first time. |
| 2014 | – | Spitfire win Comms National Awards Best Hosted Platform with SIP Communicator™ – winning an award for the second year in a row. SIP Communicator™ now supports over 10,000 users. |
| 2014 | – | Spitfire start selling and installing 3CX phone systems. Allowing customers access to the world’s leading Windows based phone system. |
| 2013 | – | DualStream® SF (Synthetic Fibre) launched by Spitfire – providing guaranteed voice quality combined with Fibre Broadband with automatic fail over. |
| 2013 | – | Spitfire MPLS launched – delivering easy to manage multi site solutions for our customers. |
| 2013 | – | Spitfire are one of BT Wholesale’s top 3 providers of Ethernet. |
| 2013 | – | Spitfire win Comms National Awards Best SME Hosted Solution with SIP Communicator™. |
| 2012 | – | Spitfire start advertising on Heart FM in London. |
| 2012 | – | Spitfire’s new network node opens at The Printworks providing additional resilience and flexibility for our customers. |
| 2012 | – | Spitfire move into 14,000 square feet new offices in The Printworks, Clapham Road, London SW9 0HP. A logistics department and second core network node is created on the ground floor |
| 2011 | – | VDSL – Fibre Broadband launched by Spitfire, delivering speeds of up to 80Mbps. |
| 2011 | – | The number of new Spitfire SIP Trunks being installed surpasses the number of new ISDN30e channels being installed by Spitfire. |
| 2010 | – | Spitfire win Comms National Awards Service Provider of the Year Award. |
| 2009 | – | Bumble the office dog is born and makes his mark on the office immediately. |
| 2009 | – | Spitfire ISP enhanced by Ethernet services |
| 2009 | – | Spitfire launch SIP Communicator™ hosted telephone system. |
| 2009 | – | Spitfire SIP Trunks now approved for use on most major phone system manufacturers including Avaya, Panasonic, 3CX, and many new IP based phone systems. |
| 2008 | – | Spitfire opens Midlands Office in Redditch. |
| 2008 | – | Voice Approved Broadband launched by Spitfire, guaranteeing voice quality over ADSL and SDSL from only £21.00 per month. |
| 2008 | – | Spitfire launch Ethernet services – delivering up to 10Mb dedicated Internet services for businesses. |
| 2008 | – | ADSL2+ launched by Spitfire – offering increased Broadband speeds of up to 24Mbps. |
| 2007 | – | Spitfire’s Hosted PBX over Voice Approved Broadband is added to the portfolio. |
| 2007 | – | Spitfire SIP trunk service launched – we are one of the first SIP Trunking providers to launch a SIP service in the UK, delivering savings of over 60% compared with ISDN30e services. |
| 2006 | – | Launch of Midlands division of Partner Team. |
| 2006 | – | Spitfire are a finalist in Comms Channel ISP of the Year award. |
| 2006 | – | Spitfire start selling leased lines using Openreach infrastructure – delivering guaranteed bandwidth to our customers. |
| 2006 | – | ADSL Max launched by Spitfire – delivering Broadband speeds of up to 8Mbps. |
| 2005 | – | Spitfire launch SDSL services – up to 2Mb uncontended internet access. |
| 2004 | – | Taxi advertising started by Spitfire – today we are the longest running continuous advertisers on London Taxis – look out for us! |
| 2003 | – | Spitfire win Avaya award for fastest growing reseller. |
| 2003 | – | Spitfire sign agreement to sell, install and maintain Nortel telephone systems – competing head on with BT in this market. |
| 2002 | – | Avaya IP500 launched – Spitfire one of the first authorised installers/maintainers of this ground breaking system, which is now on software version 14 and is still Avaya and Spitfire’s lead telephone system. |
| 2002 | – | Spitfire broadband continues to grow with speeds of 0.5, 1 and 2Mbps, with residential broadband with a 50:1 contention ratio or business services with a contention ratio of 20:1. |
| 2001 | – | Spitfire Partner Service launched, delivering outstanding advice and solutions to our IT partners. |
| 2001 | – | Spitfire become one of only thirty Annex 2 licenced operators in the UK with our own interconnect into the BT national network. We still have over 7 points of interconnect into the BT network allowing us to terminate calls over our own network. This allows us to have control over call quality by routing calls over different networks. |
| 2000 | – | Spitfire are one of the first ISPs to sell broadband in the UK – listed as one of the launch partners in BTs marketing in the FT/Times. |
| 2000 | – | Spitfire become an Internet Service Provider with our own core network, funded by the sale of Spitfire Security Systems to ADT. |
| 1999 | – | Spitfire become a switchless reseller, providing our customers with excellent value UK and international calls as an alternative to BT. |
| 1998 | – | Spitfire sell first ISP services. |
| 1998 | – | Spitfire move into new 7,000 square feet of new offices in the South Bank Business Centre, Ponton Road, Nine Elms – now the exact site of the new American Embassy. |
| 1997 | – | Spitfire have grown to 50 staff and are one of the UKs largest Panasonic installers and maintainers. |
| 1996 | – | Spitfire become BT Indirect Partner. |
| 1995 | – | Spitfire win SDX fastest growing reseller award. |
| 1995 | – | SDX Index launched – Spitfire one of the initial partners selling, installing and maintaining this market leading system. |
| 1994 | – | Spitfire sign agreement with SDX to sell SDX phone systems. |
| 1992 | – | ISDN30e launched in UK. Spitfire involved in 4 Panasonic trial sites for this new technology. |
| 1992 | – | Start Spitfire Security Systems providing Burglar Alarms as well as Panasonic Phone systems, primarily to residential customers in central London. |
| 1991 | – | Spitfire get approval as a system maintainer from the industry regulator. |
| 1990 | – | Spitfire move into newly refurbished offices on Battersea Park Road with 5 staff. |
| 1989 | – | Spitfire wins direct Panasonic account – which we hold to this day. |
| 1988 | – | In April, Spitfire was started by Justin Orde in his flat. Selling office telephone systems, fax and answering machines. |
