yellow cab

You now have an even easier excuse for ignoring the cab driver if you’re taking a quick ride in Vancouver.

Yellow Cab and Telus have teamed up and will offer free WiFi  in all cabs, they said on Tuesday in a press release.

Telus says that WiFi will be free in the back of cab regardless of service provider – there won’t be any passwords and data will not be collected from its users – I find that one a little hard to believe.

President of Yellow Cab, Kulwant Sahota, says that fares will not be effected.

Yellow cab is piloting the free WiFi for one year and may extend the practice if the feature is a success. – I’m going to go ahead and say, ya! WiFi in the back of a cab will be here to stay, is it going to stay free? – I doubt it.

The Huffington Post has more to the story.