Tizeti is a fixed
wireless broadband
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Internet service provider
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(ISP or
WISP) operated by Tizeti Inc, using Wireless to provide unlimited internet to residential and small business customers in Africa.
[Jonathan Shieber, as reported in Techcrunch, "Tizeti is Bringing internet to urban Africa", ''Techcrunch'']
17 March 2017
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, Ogun
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, Port Harcourt
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, Benin
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, Oyo, and Accra
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.
Background and availability
Tizeti, Inc. was publicly announced in Techcrunch in March 2017 by Kendall Ananyi in a Techcunch interview a week ahead of YC Winter 2017 Demo day. , it was providing commercial service to customers in Nigeria and Ghana for $30/month. Tizeti is based in Redwood City, has about 300 employees in West Africa, and had raised $5.1 million of funding.
Tizeti operates on the 5.4GHz Wi-Fi and 3.5GHz 4G LTE bands, connecting its Solar Powered Towers to customer premise equipment on customer buildings . Wireless internet propagation is near line-of-sight, not penetrating buildings and windows. The customers connect to the service via wi-fi routers inside their building.
Tizeti operates a number of Services:
* Wifi.com.ng: Unlimited Wi-Fi internet subscription service that provides unlimited internet starting $30 a month to residential and small businesses in Nigeria.
* GhanaWifi.com: Unlimited Wi-Fi internet subscription service that provides plans starting $30 a month to residential and small businesses in Ghana.
* Tizeti Enterprise Solution: Dedicated internet plans that provide high capacity dedicated internet starting from 10 Mbit/s to enterprise customers.
* Express Wi-Fi: Co-branded hotspot partnership with Facebook sold by retailers and targets dense, high traffic locations.
Growth
In January 2017, Tizeti was accepted into Y Combinator
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and received a $120,000 on investment as part of the Winter Batch.
In June 2017, Tizeti announced its Seed Round after YCW17 demo day.
In September 2018, Tizeti raised another $3 million aimed towards expanding across West Africa.
In March 2022, Tizeti partnered with Microsoft Airband team to improve internet connectivity in Nigeria.
External links
Official website
References
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Wireless Internet service providers