RIDE, the Ethiopian taxi-hailing and ride booking service, on Friday announced that it would be re-launching a premium internet-based taxi hailing service in Addis Ababa by 2017, in a move to switch from the previous SMS-based set up it offered.
Local taxi hailing company, RIDE, to launch Internet-based service in 2017
The company has been struggling with weak technological infrastructure and growing smartphone users in the capital.
Hybrid Designs, the company behind RIDE, says it wants to make traveling is Addis Ababa safe and hustle free buy utilizing the proprietary technologies available.
Apparently, the company has been struggling with weak technological infrastructure and growing smartphone users in the capital, which is RIDE's mainstay Ethiopian city.
The company will now go about making the transition from what it currently offers, to a more advanced platform via a joint deal between Hybrid Designs and Ze-Lucy Meter Taxi.
Earlier in 2016, the Ethiopian Parliament had announced that it was considering plans to replace the traditional city cabs in the country with more technologically equipped ones.
In Ethiopia, a union of Taxi companies are allowed to import taxi's duty-free.
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