As South Africa's first vendor neutral service provider, we are passionate about finding and leveraging leading infrastructure technologies to offer agnostic network and cloud solutions.

We have in-depth knowledge of technologies, business needs, and the South African corporate environment. Combining these competencies, we constantly innovate our services to meet business requirements. We achieve this by infusing technology with business networks, maximising our clients' profits by lowering their operational costs. Integrating multiple carriers and providers, we are able to bring the very best services to our clients via a converged multi-carrier network.

The advantage we bring is the ease of dealing with a single aggregator of services, who both understands the landscape and is able to offer best price and blend of services. We simplify the complexities clients experience when aggregating infrastructures.

Echo Service Provider was founded in June 2010 by Grant Thom, Angus MacRobert and Anthony Southgate. The cementing force behind the team's vision was their shared recognition that businesses in South Africa had a real need for choice when selecting an internet or network service provider, but contracting with and managing multiple providers was time-consuming, costly and complex.

The timing was perfect for Echo to enter the market as a vendor neutral aggregator, strongly client-focused, and providing internet and other value-added services to the market in an innovative way that significantly simplified the complexity involved in multi-vendor engagements. We have successfully continued with this delivery model, adding cloud, security, managed networks and other offerings to our portfolio over the years.

The heart of our business is our staff, and the passion and enthusiasm they have for their work continues to make Echo the company people aspire to join or partner with.

Each member of our team has unique experience and proficiencies, with many having spent over a decade in the ISP industry. Our highly adept engineers boast a number of Cisco qualifications, including CCIE and CCNP, as well as Fortinet security certifications. Our projects, operations, finance, sales and other resources are equally skilled and qualified in their particular areas. We exist to connect everyone, anywhere and we are bonded by our drive to make that happen.

Timeline

2026

January