NeTrakr

AKWA IBOM TECH WEEK · STARTUP PITCH

Stop guessing which network works where.

NeTrakr is a crowdsourced map of mobile network quality for Nigerian students. Run a quick speed test and see how MTN, Airtel, Glo and 9mobile really perform, place by place, on and around your campus.

Over 100 students across 5+ campuses have already joined our waitlist, with no marketing budget.

See our traction How the product works

✓ Built by 200 level students, for Nigerian students.

Example campus map

Awolowo Hall Oduduwa Hall Oluwasanmi Library Kenneth Dike Library Faculty of Engineering Main Library

Awolowo Hall

OAU · Hostel

Good
Download
35 Mbps
Upload
11 Mbps
Ping
32 ms

1,842 tests · High confidence

  • Excellent
  • Good
  • Fair
  • Poor
  • Not enough data

Tap a zone or switch network. This is an illustration: the layout is not to scale and the numbers are examples, not real measurements.

TRACTION AND EVIDENCE

Students are asking for this, and we haven’t spent a naira finding them.

Every figure below comes from our own records. We can show the signup table and the test results live.

100+

Waitlist signups

Our minimum count, taken straight from the signup records.

5+

Campuses

Students from 5+ universities have joined, and the form records each one’s institution.

₦0

Marketing spend

Every signup so far came without paid promotion.

20

Automated tests passing

They check how a measurement is matched to a campus zone, the logic behind the map.

Beta

App in testing

The backend is built and the mobile app is in beta.

  • Obafemi Awolowo University
  • University of Ibadan
  • University of Uyo
  • Federal University of Technology, Ekiti
  • Rivers State University of Science and Technology

PROBLEM AND MARKET

Coverage maps say there’s a signal. They don’t say it works.

Students pick a network by guesswork and pay for it in dropped calls, failed uploads and wasted data.

<3 in 10

Tests good enough

In most African markets Opensignal measured, fewer than 3 in 10 mobile connection tests were consistently good enough for everyday apps.

Opensignal, State of Mobile Network Experience in Africa, 2024

~3 in 10

Outside 4G coverage

4G covered 71% of people in the African region in 2024, leaving about 29% without it.

ITU, 2024 data

2.1M+

University students

Over 2.1 million students across 270 Nigerian universities. This is where we start.

NUC figures reported by BusinessDay, Q1 2025. Universities only.

PRODUCT

Run a test. See the map. Pick the better network.

The interactive map at the top of this page is the app’s main screen. Tap a zone, switch networks, and read the result.

1

Run a test

The app measures download, upload and ping, and takes several location readings.

2

Match it to a zone

The result counts only when the readings agree on one named campus zone.

3

Compare networks

Every zone shows all four networks side by side, coloured by quality.

Main Library: all four networks, ranked

#1airtel
Airtel 26 Mbps201 tests · moderate confidence
Best hereGood
#2MTN
MTN 13 Mbps318 tests · high confidence
Fair
#3glo
Glo 4 Mbps18 tests · low confidence
Poor
#49
9mobile3 tests · not enough data yet
No data

Ranked by download speed. Numbers and logo marks are examples for illustration.

Compare and pick the best provider with ease

A map of named places

Campuses are split into zones students already know, like halls, libraries and faculties.

All four networks

MTN, Airtel, Glo and 9mobile for every place, always in the same order.

Honest confidence labels

Each result says how many tests stand behind it, and places with too few tests are marked as not enough data.

Private by design

Exact coordinates stay internal. Users only ever see place names.

BUSINESS MODEL

Six steps from free app to operator revenue.

Free for students, and valuable to the people who run networks. Each step pays for the next one, in order.

Month 0: launch on Google Play and the App Store. Cost: over NGN 200,000.
  1. 1
    Month 0

    Ads keep it running

    Ads in the free app pay for the servers and basic functions that keep NeTrakr running.

  2. +3 months2
    Month 3

    Premium users

    Users who pay enjoy the app more freely, with fewer limits.

  3. +3 months3
    Month 6

    Tiered premium

    Heavy users pay, or watch an ad, for more usage.

  4. +3 months4
    Month 9

    Find good internet near me

    A premium feature that finds the best network for a person’s own use case.

  5. +5 months5
    Month 14

    Sponsorships and partnerships

    Brands and partners reach students through the app.

  6. same time6
    Month 14

    Operators pay for insight

    Our biggest long-term revenue line, selling zone-level network data.

Timing is our plan and will adjust to what we learn.

Step 6: operators already pay for network data

$230.7M

Ookla’s parent division, 2025

Ziff Davis’s Connectivity division, home of Ookla, earned $230.7M in 2025, up 8%. Network performance services drove the growth, up $14.9M.

Ziff Davis Form 10-K, fiscal year 2025

Why ours will be more attractive:

Campus-zone detail

Global tools report countries and cities. We report named places like a library or a hostel.

Measured where students are

Tests come from real phones inside buildings, not only from towers and drive tests.

The youth market

Operators can see where students are underserved, and win them by fixing it.

TEAM

Three 200 level builders, one product.

We built the backend, the database design and the mobile app ourselves.

Edet Ope Otoabasi

Founder, CEO and CTO

Leads the product and designs the backend and database, including the zone-matching logic.

Okutade Ayoade Oluwawamiri

Co-founder and front-end engineer

200 level Electrical/Electronics Engineering student, OAU. Builds the mobile app.

Ojerinde Ayokunle Peter

Co-founder and seasoned backend engineer

200 level Mechanical Engineering student, OAU.

VISION AND ASK

In five years, Africa checks its network before it commits.

1

Years 1–2

Nigerian campuses. Be the app students check before choosing a network.

2

Years 2–3

Move into cities and launch “find good internet near me”.

3

Years 4–5

Expand across African markets and become the trusted source of network quality for operators and regulators.

Why we haven’t launched yet: the app is in beta because running it for hundreds of users costs money we don’t have yet.

What we will do with the prize money

Launch on both stores

Publish on Google Play and the App Store. Cost: over NGN 200,000.

Host the server

Pay for hosting so the app can open to hundreds of users.

Grow through marketing

Raise our marketing budget to reach many more campuses.

Grow the team

Bring in people to run operations, and serve students beyond Nigeria.

PITCH AND Q&A

Questions we expect.

Why would operators trust crowdsourced data?

Every result shows a confidence label based on its number of tests, and places with too few tests are marked as not enough data. Tests also carry GPS accuracy, and low-accuracy ones don’t count toward a place.

How do you handle fake or wrong tests?

A test only counts toward a zone when several location readings agree on it. Rate limiting and duplicate checks are planned before public launch.

What about privacy?

Exact coordinates stay internal. Users only ever see place names, and the consent text will state that precise location is collected.

Will operators pay to rank higher?

No. Operators pay for insight and clearly labelled sponsorship. Quality rankings stay independent, because the map is only useful if people trust it.

Why start with campuses?

Students are dense, mobile-first, and hit network problems every day, so demand and data build fastest there.

Information is key. We are putting the key in the hands of people across the continent.

This year’s theme is Scaling the Frontier: From Homegrown Innovation to Global Markets. NeTrakr is homegrown: built by Nigerian students, starting on Nigerian campuses, and scaling to every market that needs to know its network works.

This is entrepreneurship. This is innovation. This is NeTrakr.