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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 15 2017, @08:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the uber-smackdown dept.

The Philippine Daily Inquirer reports that the Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) of the Philippines has ordered a one-month suspension of Uber's operations in the country.

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has suspended for a month the operations of transport network company (TNC) Uber after it defied its July 26 order not to accept and activate new drivers into its platform.

In response, Uber issued a short statement, saying: "Uber received an order around 6 p.m. tonight (August 14) to completely stop operations. We are studying the order at the moment. We will update our riders and drivers as soon as we can."

In its cease-and-desist order that was released and took effect on Monday night, the LTFRB said that Uber was "irresponsible" when it continued to accept and activate new drivers into its platform.

[...] Recognizing that their order meant that thousands of Uber's drivers would lose income for a month, the LTFRB recommended that Uber extend financial assistance to its affected drivers as a "form of good faith."

"[T]heir accredited peer-operators would not have suffered the current predicament were it not for the predatory actions of [Uber]," it said.

On July 26, the LTFRB ordered TNCs Grab and Uber to stop their acceptance and accreditation of new drivers as the agency ironed out issues concerning the ride-sharing industry.

However, the LTFRB found out that Uber defied its order, with the TNC even releasing a statement that partly read that "applications are being accepted but not processed" by them. On top of this, the LTFRB was also able to activate three of its cars into Uber's platform.

The company later issued a statement that it was complying with the order. Earlier today (August 15) they filed a motion for reconsideration which the LTFRB has denied.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @09:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @09:18AM (#554625)
    Sure, it happens. It's reported. But the fact that it's never happened even once to me in the perhaps thousands of times I've ridden taxis in Metro Manila my whole life, nor has it ever happened to anyone that I personally know, probably means that it's not exactly systemic. Obviously if something makes the news like that then it is by definition not a common thing. If someone is being disingenuous here I don't think it's me. As I said the only kinds of abusive behaviours that I have personally seen with taxi drivers here is those bastards taking advantage of desperate commuters by forcing them to agree to fees, either flat rates or extra payment over and above what the meter says, and outright refusal to take one to certain areas. In the former case you always have the choice not to take the deal, and try to report the abusive driver to the LTFRB. The biggest thing that Grab and Uber have done here in Metro Manila is to help alleviate the extreme shortage of such conveyances that cause exactly the former behaviour.