Vodafone gets a scoot on with Yamaha IoT deal

Scooters, the ginger step-brothers of the car, have been given the IoT treatment by Vodafone.
The UK operator has signed up with Yamaha to take IoT beyond the alliteratively-pleasing connected car, towards the cumbersome-to-pronounce ‘connected scooter’.
Yup, that’s a thing, and Vodafone is bringing its embedded telematics system to a fleet of Yamaha TMAX SX and TMAX DX models. The principle of connecting scooters to the internet is not quite as gimmicky as it would first sound