- Intellicomms runs its own network and provides managed IT, cloud and VoIP services.
- South Africa’s IT and telecom sector faces high costs, security risks, and strong competition.
Intellicomms Ltd: Who they are
Intellicomms (Pty) Ltd is a private IT company based at 89 Bute Road, Sandown, Sandton, Johannesburg 2196. The company holds its own autonomous systemunder AFRINIC and functions as a Local Internet Registrar. It serves businesses in South Africa offering a full range of IT and network services.
Services include helpdesk and on-site support for computer systems. They provide cloud backup and disaster recovery tools under “Intelli-Cloud”. They offer VoIP and hosted PBX systems via Intelli-Voice to let users make calls from different devices. They also deliver business fibre internet with flexible speeds, with backup plans so that if fibre is interrupted they switch to wireless or LTE failover. They emphasise 24/7 monitoring, proactive maintenance and network reliability. They work with businesses of different sizes, from small teams to large firms wanting secure, scalable tech infrastructure.
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Industry setting: Challenges and innovations for firms like Intellicomms
The market for business IT services, cloud, connectivity and telecoms in South Africa is evolving rapidly. Many companies are moving workloads into the cloud, supporting remote/hybrid teams and needing fast, reliable connectivity. At the same time they face key challenges: infrastructure remains uneven (especially outside main metros), costs for business-grade fibre or fixed wireless can be high, and local skills shortages hamper rollout and support.
Security threats are rising sharply, so businesses demand proactive and managed IT support rather than purely reactive break-fix models. Providers like Intellicomms are responding with subscription-based managed services, hosted voice and connectivity bundles, and emphasise local support teams rather than remote or offshore helpdesks. This trend helps overcome pain-points such as slow response, service downtime and fragmented vendors.
Business fibre and connectivity solutions must deliver uptime, fail-over and redundancy; many organisations are now willing to invest for reliability rather than lowest cost. Intellicomms’ fibre offering with fail-over and public IP options illustrates this shift. Similarly, cloud backup and hosted VoIP are no longer optional extras but core parts of business continuity strategy.
In this space providers that combine network infrastructure (or strong partnerships), IT support, cloud services and voice can offer differentiated value. Intellicomms’ use of its own ASN shows it is structurally capable of controlling traffic routing, which can imply higher performance and reliability for business clients.
