Tizeti is a fixed wireless broadband Internet service provider (ISP or WISP) operated by Tizeti Inc, using Wireless to provide unlimited internet to residential and small business customers in Africa. It is also used to connect its base stations to customer buildings. Tizeti currently operates within Lagos, Ogun, Port Harcourt, Benin, Oyo, and Accra.
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:
Growth.
In January 2017, Tizeti was accepted into Y Combinator 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.
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