UK Business Succession Index

Telecommunications succession in East of England

360 of 970 telecommunications companies in East of England — 37.1% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured970
Director aged 60+360
Exposure rate37.1%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
970
Companies measured
360
Director 60+
115
Director 70+
37.1%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; telecommunications nationally runs at 32.9%.

MeasureCompanies
Telecommunications companies in East of England measured970
Oldest director aged 60 or over360
Oldest director aged 70 or over115

Of the 360 with a director over 60, 17 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Telecommunications in other regions

Region60+Rate
South East76039.5%
Wales12437.8%
South West29136.5%
Scotland16735.3%
London93531.4%
East Midlands17530.4%
Yorkshire & The Humber24128.8%
North West33928.5%

Other trades in East of England

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services6,65238.7%
Lettings5,62339.6%
Retail3,69225%
Other Leisure3,01130.7%
Investment2,99930.9%
Agriculture2,85060.3%
Property Development2,64745.5%
Investment / Fund Management2,59737.4%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Technology pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Technology →

See all Telecommunications succession data or everything in East of England.

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ExitRadar, "Telecommunications succession in East of England", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/tech-telecom/east-of-england/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.