Nigeria’s OgaDriva has partnered with MTN to allow users easily book for their bus tickets via SMS making the cumbersome process as streamlined as possible.
The firm says the move allows users in in Nigeria, Ghana, Togo and 2 other African countries to book their Bus tickets VIA SMS over MTN’s Gateway.
The firm says Internet bus booking won’t work as first as expected and its target audience is both the ubarn and rural populations who use buses mostly and might not have access to the internet all the time but have their mobile phones with them most of the times.
To sign up to the service, users simply textsREGfirstname, then send the text message to +44 79 379 46 766 for your username, password and pin then find a trip by sendingFIND #fromcity #tocity then pay your trip easily via your mobile phone.Ogadriva then picks you from your home ordestinated place to your last destination.
Ogradriva Is an Intercity bus operator and ticketing engine design for drivers and passengers travelling in Nigeria, Ghana and aims to launch in Kenya too to help users compare cheap online bus tickets, with list of different bus operators, check bus arrival and departure and let them pay with their mobile phones be pickup from anywhere, anytime.
