Traffic in Jozi: A choice you make, says iBuzz
I had read about the iBuzz on IT Web and had contacted the good people at Imperial Fleet Services to see if they would be interested in taking a group of SA's finest Tech press up to Sin City (Sun City) for Cisco’s Networkers conference. I was soon in touch with Muller Pretorius, the innovative entrepreneur behind this pimped 21-seater, LCD screened mobile hub. When this oke says his bus is connected', people in the South run scared...
So there we were…
On the road to Cisco's Networkers Conference in Sin City (Sun City?). Over a 1000 tech heads getting together to talk about IP and how it’s making things happen. Everything from voice, video and data all running over one ding, the Intelligent Information Network. One day, even the bog in your reception will be online and reduced to just another app on the network, centrally flushed and invariably scented from your organisation’s head office (all in line with the corporate brand you know, one company – one stink).
We are heading through for Marthin de Beer’s keynote session and hopefully I’ll send through a clip later, talking about his views on how Web 2.0 is redefining how companies engage with consumers (and importantly vice versa) and generally do business. Knowing this event, I’m sure I’ll bump into the oke who invented VoIP and he’ll show me how to load video up here.
Looks like the iBuzz will get us there on time and connected. Everyone’s been hacking away the whole time onboard. With entrepreneurs like Muller always asking how tech can best help us to solve everyday problems like traffic, SA’s economy is well placed to compete globally and our ‘knowledge workers’ will always have access to info on the go. It’s all about being productive whilst in traffic (err… not one’s ability to eye the cherrie next to you on the N1, whilst taking their number and still having high hopes of arriving alive).
This post was brought to you, live and on the road, by the iBuzz. Great concept, amazing service and I'm sure you'll be seeing an iBuzz cruising next to you soon.
5 comments:
Do you think the iBuzz would be able to take me and a couple fo SA journos to Kenya? That way by the time we reach there all their deadlines are met and it gives me enough time to plan a comprehensive crisis communications strategy! Ruben
Amazing - imagine if Metrobus did this... far-fetched, but possible.
Who is the service provider? Can't be Telkom, that's for sure.
LOL! Flying into Africa is another story. The best hope for your travels is to hope your carrier goes the way so many European airlines have gone, offering on board connectivity. Up to be corrected, but I think Lufthansa were the first to trial/offer onboard Broadband.
It would be awesome if Metrobus went this route! If the got a few more busses, increased their routes and times...and offered BB (BroadBand Chop...with Ploka) onboard, I'd leave my ride at home or at a terminal near my house.
This iBuzz uses a Linksys router that takes a slot for a 3G/HSDPA card. The connectivity is supplied by Vodacom, transport services by Muller Pretorius, who is a sub-contracted by Imperial Fleet Services and a company called Masondo. Muller would be the best person to contact for more detail.
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