Tizeti and Microsoft partner to bring broadband to Côte d’Ivoire

Tizeti, a Nigerian web service supplier, has partnered with Microsoft to bring its broadband resolution to Cote d’Ivoire. 

The partnership, Tizeti’s second worldwide partnership after partnering with Eutelsat to increase broadband penetration would make Cote d’Ivoire the third nation that Tizeti is current in after Ghana and Nigeria. The firm additionally has plans to increase to Togo. 

Tizeti says that the partnership would bring web entry to nearly 5 million folks by addressing the numerous broadband hole in Côte d’Ivoire. The nation’s web penetration fee stood at 45.4%, with 12.94 million web customers in Côte d’Ivoire firstly of 2023.

In Côte d’Ivoire, the typical value of 1GB of knowledge is $3.06, making it the 173rd costliest nation on the earth and increased than the costliest plans in Nigeria ($2.96) and Ghana ($1.23). For context, the best value in Côte d’Ivoire is $15.31. According to Kendall Ananyi, the founder and CEO of Tizeti, the corporate makes use of solar-powered towers to assist decrease the worth of knowledge in Ghana and Nigeria by bringing 30% to 50% value financial savings on information cap plans. ( Solar-powered towers can save prices on energy era)

“We are thrilled to partner with Microsoft to bring reliable and affordable high-speed internet access to underserved communities in Côte d’Ivoire. Our mission at Tizeti is to bring affordable and reliable internet to more Africans outside the digital envelope, and this partnership is a significant step forward in achieving that goal,” Ananyi shared. 

Tizeti will leverage its low-cost wi-fi applied sciences to roll out high-speed web infrastructure with Microsoft’s Airband Initiative. The initiative is concentrated on advancing digital fairness—entry to reasonably priced web, reasonably priced units, and digital expertise—as a platform for empowerment and digital transformation internationally.

Tizeti has been worthwhile in three of the final 4 years and, as of August 2022, had generated over ₦11 billion in income. “In the last 10 years of our operation, we have been able to generate  ₦11 billion as revenue and this we achieved without any debt as of today. We have grown significantly within the last few years, being profitable in three out of the last four years and paid our first dividend this year. We currently have over 3884 hotspot locations and built one tower every month since we started, with 2.8 million users in Nigeria. Today, Tizeti delivers over 190 TBPS of data a day, which is about 20% of what Airtel, the second largest telco with coverage in 36 states, delivers,” Ananyi shared.