Meru Cabs, India's largest radio cab service provider has introduced alternative payment facility for their passengers in Hyderabad city.
Meru Cabs, India's largest radio cab service provider, plans to ramp up its operations by adding 2,000 cars and hiring an equal number of drivers by March 2011 to cater to increased demand.
Called as 'Trip Tracker Service', the family gets SMS alerts on the taxi's location.
Meru Cabs, one of the first radio taxi services in the country, is contesting service tax notices sent to it since 2010 in the Bombay High Court.
The fresh funds would be used for expansion of Meru's network.
The company has tied up with Delhi police under ICE.
The situation in Mumbai, paralysed by the motormen's strike, just got worse as 40 per cent of the city taxis stayed off the roads on Tuesday. In addition nearly 1,700 drivers of the privately-run Meru Cabs also went on strike to demand better wages.
Radio taxi service provider Meru Cabs is planning to put in place the next level of driver verification, one liked to biometric identification tool Aadhaar.
Meru Cabs is in talks with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.
The Competition Appellate Tribunal (Compat) had on December 7 last year ordered fair trade watchdog CCI to probe afresh the alleged abuse of dominance by the popular tax-hailing app operator.
There are about 600,000 taxis in India, generating combined annual revenue of about Rs 11,000 crore (Rs 110 billion).
Meru Cabs, launched in 2006, has everything going for it: A credible brand, loyal customers and a transparent pricing mechanism and technology. But, the only thing missing is profits. Meru wants to change that now. Says Meru CEO Siddhartha Pawha: FY13 will be focused towards achieving the last target.
Meru Cabs and OlaCabs among radio cabs and bus ticket booking provider Redbus have been using big data analytics.
The Association claimed to represent 13 operators, including Mega Cabs, Easy Cabs, Meru Cabs, Tab Cabs, which run their services in several cities across the country.
Meru Cabs' founder says they were a traditional company.
CCPA said the primary issues raised in the notices included 'deficiency in service'. This includes lack of proper response from customer support, driver refusing to take payment by online mode and insisting for cash only.
Ola accuses Uber of violating local laws, run business for profit.
The safety net for passengers is focused solely on the terms and conditions for the radio taxi scheme issued by the transport department.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal says surge pricing is daylight robbery and no responsible govt can allow that.
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100,000 cabs and 45,000 autorickshaws would be plying on the Delhi-NCR routes to handle the rush.
With Uber dipping into its generous war chest to subsidise its service, its pampered clientele should sit back and enjoy the ride.
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The competition between app-based taxi services has led to a drop in prices and more choices for customers.
Uber said it is conducting a full audit of its verification, rider feedback and support processes apart from assessing its driver screening processes, Ola is getting GPS installed in all its partner taxis.
To address a crescendo of complaints, the state government recently created a new category of taxis that have a self-explanatory 'no refusal' blazoned on them and come in the by-now-ubiquitous blue and white colours of the Trinamool Congress.
The amendment comes within a month of web-based taxi companies being banned in Delhi, after a taxi driver on Uber's network allegedly raped a finance executive early this month.
The Information Technology Act needs another tweak to allow a different kind of information intermediary to flourish, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Reports suggest that the police were unable to find any contact of the company's office and had to take a Uber cab to reach the company's training centre in Gurgaon, giving credence to the perception that Uber has grown too much too soon.
Home-grown taxi booking companies which have a business model similar to Uber's might have stricter security norms imposed on them.
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