{"id":1013682,"date":"2026-06-11T10:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013682"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:38:16","slug":"ride-hailing-app-bolt-expands-to-italy-in-bid-to-shake-up-underserved-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/11\/ride-hailing-app-bolt-expands-to-italy-in-bid-to-shake-up-underserved-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride-hailing app Bolt expands to Italy in bid to shake up underserved market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-hailing app Bolt launched operations in Milan on Wednesday in the first \u200bstage of a push to shake up \u200bthe Italian urban transport market, which its CEO told Reuters remains heavily underserved despite \u200bthe presence of U.S. rival Uber. <\/p>\n<p>Estonia-based Bolt will work with hundreds of drivers in Milan &#8211; either official cab drivers or private hire car drivers &#8211; and expects to service millions of rides in the first year, said founder and Chief Executive Markus Villig. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The market \u200cin Italy is \u2060at an \u2060early stage. We have a long-term view,&#8221; Villig said in an interview, adding that Bolt intends to later expand elsewhere in Italy \u200bto tap into its huge tourism industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-hailing app Bolt launched operations in Milan on Wednesday in the first \u200bstage of a push to shake up \u200bthe Italian urban transport market, which its CEO told Reuters remains heavily underserved despite \u200bthe presence of U.S. rival Uber. Estonia-based Bolt will work with hundreds of drivers in Milan &#8211; either official cab drivers or private hire car drivers &#8211; and expects to service millions of rides in the first year, said founder and Chief Executive Markus Villig. &#8220;The market \u200cin Italy is \u2060at an \u2060early stage. We have a long-term view,&#8221; Villig said in an interview, adding that Bolt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013704,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013682\/revisions\/1013704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}