Free Wi-Fi in 200 SA taxis per week
Wi-Taxi South Africa CEO, Brian Mdluli, says that the company is rolling out its free Wi-Fi service to 200 taxis in Gauteng every week.
Wi-Taxi is the technology partner for the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco), who launched a Wi-Fi service for its taxis on 12 June.
“We are on track to reach 1,500 taxis within six months,” Mdluli said, spreading to other provinces over time. “The take up has been fantastic and the user numbers are growing daily,” he said.
The chief executive said that each taxi was using an average of about 1GB of data per day, up from between 200MB – 400MB when approximately 75 commuters were using the service on a daily basis in July.
The service allocates 50MB of free data to each commuter per month.
Santaco said the installation of Wi-Fi in all 250,000 taxis and taxi ranks would be done within three years, in conjunction with Telkom.
Wi-Taxi offers a broad range of services including a commercial platform and advertising space.
The following service are on offer:
- Free 50mb Wi-Fi per month, for internet access;
- Purchase of airtime across all mobile networks;
- Purchase of Wi-Taxi mobile data bundles;
- Purchase of electricity vouchers;
- Financial Services ( Funeral, House Hold, Passenger policies);
- Legal Services.
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