So we just got word from Tiketmobile about the launch of it’s flagship product. If you have not come across the name before now, Tiketmobile lets travelers find and buy bus tickets conveniently from their mobile devices.
Tiketmobile was first conceived and built at Start-up Weekend Lagos in September 2011. Between then and now, it has been iterated a number of times in terms of platform, strategy and offering. Currently, to buy tickets on Tiketmobile, a user would have to access it from the mobile website, tiketmobile.com. If the user is visiting from a mobile phone, they are automatically redirected there.
Tiketmobile has one bus company listed and is currently in talks with up to five other companies, got hopes to sign-up all providers of interstate bus transport. Announcements will be pushed to the startup’s blog.
To enable payment, Tiketmobile works closely with Interswitch to integrate their “Pay with QuickTeller”. This allows users to pay for their tickets on Tiketmobile website using their ATM card; and also from any of the hundreds of thousand Interswitch ATM machines nationwide. Payment on Tiketmobile’s website is also handled by Interswitch, so your information – such as card details and pin are in safe hands.
Co-Founder, Celestine Ezeokoye said “We believe that mobile money is the future of payment in Africa, so we have reached an agreement with a major mobile money provider to tightly integrate mobile money platform. We are currently working on the integration, which would work alongside our “Pay with QuickTeller” option, and we would make announcements as we progress”.
The Tiketmobile team is composed of :
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Celestine Ezeokoye; BSc. Computer Science, UNILAG (Co-founder and CEO): Responsible for platform/application engineering and company strategy and direction. He programs in more than 5 programming languages and is a server-side development expert. He represented Nigeria two times at the Microsoft Imagine Cup while he was studying for his degree.
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Constance Okoghenun; Diploma in Software Engineering, NIIT (Co-founder and Product Manager): Responsible for Tiketmobile as a product; the features and development efforts. He develops the front-end and manages the mail and DNS servers. He had interned at his dad’s transport company, so he is well grounded in the operations of bus companies in Lagos.
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Felix Ike; BSc. Computer Science, UNILAG (in view) (Developer): Felix is responsible for the mobile efforts and mobile app development.
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Joseph Benson-Aruna (Graphics and UI/UX): Joseph makes Tiketmobile look awesome. He is an expert in UI/UX design and always aims to outdo his previous best.
The startup currently enjoy business support and incubation from Co-Creation Hub, and is very grateful to people who have stood by them and given support during the period leading to this release, including: Co-Creation Hub, Tony Elumelu Foundation, Nokia, Microsoft, OTEKBITS, and a lot of other individuals and corporate bodies too many to mention.
Constance, another co-founder claims “Tiketmobile is committed to building the best mobile ticketing experience and we are hard at work to make sure we support more services“.
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