Bury-based Pennine Telecom has marked its 40th anniversary with a shift into hosted telephony.
The company was founded on 1st May 1976 as a two-way radio servicing business before diversifying initially in the 1980s into the newly liberalised telecoms sector and then into data and wireless networking.
The £8m turnover business now offers voice, data, networks, radio and mobile expertise to private and public sector organisations nationwide.
Pennine's MD Andrew Roberts said: "The time is now coming for hosted telephony and we'll be launching our own offering in what is a milestone year for the business.
"The key lesson learned over the past 40 years is that you have to keep moving, to keep identifying the technologies which will help us all communicate and work more effectively.
"Hosted is clearly among those but The Internet of Things will be truly transformative, presenting both challenges and opportunities to companies like Pennine."