Growth strategy
Where to build next, fibre or fixed wireless, and how to sign up homes and businesses faster. Practical plans grounded in three decades of building and running networks.
Business development for wireless and fibre ISPs
Your network grows. So do we.
Argenco helps wireless and fibre internet service providers win more customers, raise funding and build faster. Our reward comes the same way yours does: as your network grows, so does the internet access you buy through AFR-IX.
30+ years
in ICT and connectivity across Southern Africa
600,000
monthly users on the Tshwane free Wi-Fi network Tim ran
30,000
homes in a KwaZulu-Natal fibre roll-out he led
R15m
annual turnover at Airband, the wireless ISP he co-founded and sold
What we do
Growth is the service. Connectivity is how we're rewarded.
Argenco's incentive is simple: we do well when you do. Tim Genders works alongside the owners of wireless and fibre ISPs on the things that actually grow a network, and Argenco is rewarded as that growth turns into more traffic on AFR-IX IP transit.
Wireless ISPsFibre ISPsFTTH operatorsCommunity and public Wi-Fi networks
Funding and partnerships
Corporate, impact and donor funding to expand into underserved areas, and the partnerships that make a roll-out stick. Tim has raised from mining, industrial, financial and impact investors.
Data and operations
One clear view out of disparate systems: home internet usage, build progress, commission claims and invoicing with local contractors, so you can see what's working and fix what isn't.
How it works
A partnership built on aligned incentives.
Every subscriber you connect needs internet access upstream. As your network grows you buy more IP transit, and Argenco, as business development partner to AFR-IX, shares in that growth. It keeps our focus exactly where yours is.
Talk to Tim about your network- 01
We work on your growth
Strategy, funding, partnerships, operations: whatever is holding your network back.
- 02
Your network grows
More homes passed, more subscribers connected, more traffic on your network.
- 03
You buy more IP transit
Through AFR-IX, as and when you need the capacity. That's how Argenco is rewarded.
On the ground
Networks get built in the field, not the boardroom.
From township fibre roll-outs to fixed-wireless networks, Tim's work happens on site, alongside the operators and communities who make connectivity real.
Tim Genders
Founder, Argenco · Business Development, AFR-IX
Knysna, Western Cape
About
Meet Tim Genders.
An engineer by training, with First Class Honours in Engineering Science from Oxford, Tim has spent more than 30 years in ICT and connectivity across Southern Africa. He has built, grown and sold an ISP, run one of the country's largest free public Wi-Fi networks, and chaired the industry body for South Africa's wireless operators.
- 2024 – 2026
Head of Innovation, Ilitha Telecommunications
Led the roll-out of 30,000 fibre homes in KwaZulu-Natal.
- 2016 – 2024
Head of Commercial and two-term CEO, Project Isizwe
Ran the Tshwane municipal free Wi-Fi network, serving 600,000 users a month.
- 2016 – 2023
Chair, Wireless Access Providers' Association
Twice elected Chair of WAPA; still on its management committee.
- 2007 – 2016
Co-founder, Airband South Africa
Built a KZN wireless network from scratch, grew it to R15m turnover and sold it to Herotel.
Has raised connectivity funding from
Glencore · Global Innovation Fund · Acciona · Sappi · Seriti · Investec · Sibanye-Stillwater · Anglo American · 48percent.org
Our connectivity partner
Backed by AFR-IX.
AFR-IX Telecom supplies wholesale connectivity to internet service providers in South Africa and across the continent, with a point of presence at the Digital Parks Africa data centre in Samrand. Because Argenco is AFR-IX's business development partner, when your network needs more capacity you're dealing with someone who already knows your business.
Visit afr-ix.co.zaIP transit that keeps pace with you
- Upstream capacity that grows as your subscriber base grows
- A network built to bring connectivity closer to ISPs
- One point of contact who knows your growth plans
Let's grow your network.
Tell Tim where your network is today and where you want it to be. Based in Knysna, working with ISPs across South Africa.