Tizeti

Tizeti is a West African internet service provider that builds and operates its own solar-powered wireless base stations to deliver uncapped, fixed-price broadband to homes, businesses, events and conferences, and also deploys public Wi-Fi hotspots. The company combines the wireless capacity of Wi-Fi with low-cost solar panels to keep both capital and operating expenditure low, and passes the resulting savings on through flat-rate unlimited plans. It has operated a consumer-facing brand, Wifi.com.ng, in Nigeria, and runs support operations for Nigeria, Ghana and an Express Wi-Fi service line [0][1][6].

Beyond fixed wireless Wi-Fi, Tizeti has extended its network into 4G LTE — launching its first 4G-capable tower in Port Harcourt in 2019 — and has added adjacent services including the WifiCall.ng voice-over-internet calling product launched in April 2019. Later company announcements describe a free fiber service across Nigeria and Ghana with unlimited 1 Gbps speeds, AI-supported customer experience tooling, and ad-supported internet access in West Africa [2][5]. Network infrastructure has been upgraded over time, including a core network capacity upgrade to 100 Gbps in 2020 and equipment partnerships with Nokia for LTE fixed wireless access and Cambium Networks for wireless technology [2].

The company was described in 2019 as operating primarily in Lagos with 1.1 million unique users, and it has since announced expansion into additional Nigerian states, Ghana and collaboration work targeting Côte d'Ivoire [2][3][5].

Founding story

Tizeti was founded in 2015 by Kendall Ananyi and Ifeanyi Okonkwo, who went through Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch. The founders set out to address poor internet connectivity in Africa by building a cost-effective, end-to-end network for reliable, uncapped access; Ananyi holds a master's in computer engineering from the University of Victoria with prior roles at ExxonMobil, Microsoft Canada and PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Okonkwo holds a master's in quality management from the University of Salford with prior experience at BlackBerry (Research In Motion) and Eircom [0][4][6].

Business model

Tizeti owns and operates its transmission infrastructure — solar-powered Wi-Fi towers, LTE sites and a delivery network carrying capacity from submarine cables to customers — rather than reselling wholesale capacity from incumbent telcos, which the company states allows it to price aggressively. It has licensed spectrum from the Nigerian government and signed an IRU contract with a submarine cable provider [0][6].

Revenue comes from subscriptions to unlimited internet plans sold to residential and SME customers, plus service to events and conferences and public hotspot deployments. A monthly unlimited plan was priced at 9,500 Nigerian Naira (about $26-$30) in company and press accounts, described as roughly 30% cheaper than, or 30-50% of, comparable mobile data plans. Adjacent revenue lines include the WifiCall.ng calling service and, per later announcements, ad-supported access [0][2][5][6].

Traction

TechCrunch reported 1.1 million unique users in November 2019. At the 2017 seed round the company was building out 35 owned and operated towers and planned 3,000 new public hotspots in Lagos. The company announced its first dividend of 2.00 NGN for the year ended December 2021 and, in May 2024, a fifth consecutive year of profitability for Tizeti Nigeria [2][3][5][6].

Latest developments

Recent company announcements include the launch of ad-supported internet access in West Africa (March 2026), an AI-powered customer experience launch (September 2025), the appointment of Oluwadamilola Ojomo as Vice President for Financial Risk, Compliance and Audit (January 2025), and a free fiber service across Nigeria and Ghana promising unlimited 1 Gbps (December 2024) [2].