Rochdale is ten minutes up the road from our Oldham base. STSPC supports businesses, schools and home users across the borough, including Rochdale town centre, Milnrow, Newhey, Littleborough, Wardle, Heywood, Castleton and Middleton. Close enough for genuine same-day on-site response, without city-centre rates.
Plenty of Rochdale organisations sit in that awkward middle ground: too big to keep limping along with no IT support, too small to justify hiring in-house. That gap is exactly what our managed support covers, a seven-day helpdesk and monitoring for the day-to-day, and an engineer in a van for everything else.
What we handle across Rochdale
- Managed IT support: helpdesk, monitoring, patching and on-site engineering under one bespoke agreement.
- Schools IT: KCSIE-aligned filtering and monitoring, safeguarding visibility for the DSL and inspection-ready documentation.
- Network infrastructure: cabling, Wi-Fi surveys and installs for units, mills and converted office space, where thick stone walls make consumer kit useless.
- Telecoms and VoIP: the copper switch-off is coming for old phone lines everywhere; we port numbers and set up modern systems before it becomes urgent.
- Endpoint protection and email security: managed EDR, encryption and anti-phishing for practices handling sensitive data.
- Repairs and upgrades for home users, collected or dropped off at our Oldham workshop.
The kind of work we do nearby
A four-surgery dental practice called us the morning a ransomware note appeared on their patient system. We isolated the server, verified the off-site backups and rebuilt clean: running again within 48 hours, no ransom paid, no patient records lost. The same discipline, tested backups, layered email security and managed endpoints, is what we set up for clients before anything goes wrong.
Common questions from Rochdale
How quickly can an engineer reach us?
From our base the A627(M) puts most of the borough within a twenty-minute drive, so urgent on-site visits are usually same-day. Most day-to-day issues never need a visit: the helpdesk runs seven days a week and WhatsApp is open 24/7.
Do you work with schools in the borough?
Yes. Filtering, monitoring, classroom technology and the paperwork that goes with inspections are a core part of what we do, and big jobs are scheduled into half-terms so teaching time is never lost.
What does support cost?
We scope first and quote after, because a five-person office and a two-form-entry school need very different cover. The consultation and quote are free and there is no obligation.
Talk to us
Raise a ticket at submit-ticket, message us on WhatsApp, or arrange a visit through the contact page.