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Author:  captain cab [ Thu May 16, 2013 1:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Just how illegal is this app?
minicabit launches nationwide Private Hire Taxi booking app with O2 investment



Service can make it easier and more affordable for visitors to venues to book minicabs

London 16th May 2013 – O2, the UK mobile operator, has invested in minicabit to launch the first nationwide minicab booking app for smartphones.

minicabit (www.minicabit.com) enables price comparison, booking and payment of cab journeys across the UK, for both local and long distance trips. By uniquely including quotes from licensed Private Hire Taxi operators beyond the user’s local area, minicabit’s comparison engine can save customers up to 30% off the cost of their trip.

As a result of opening up the market to more customers, minicabit’s network of over 100 fleets across the UK can service virtually any length of trip. Now, with O2’s investment, minicabit has launched the first smartphone app for booking such trips around the UK.

Geoff Symonds, Director of Transport Strategy at AEG Europe, said: “The O2 in London has been working with minicabit for well over a year. We have welcomed its ‘network approach’ which has allowed us to work with our favoured minicab operators all under the minicabit brand for our customers. It has been great to see customers even 100 miles away use the minicabit website to attend our events, a benefit of its wide network. Initiatives such as minicabit’s offer with O2 Priority Moments, as well as its new mobile app, now provides another viable transport option for our customers travelling to our venue.”

The app is available now on iPhone, with Android coming soon.

Notes to editors
minicabit is the UK’s only nationwide Private Hire Taxi booking website and app, enabling customers to save time and money booking local and long distance journeys. Having received investment from Telefonica’s Wayra fund, minicabit covers 30 cities and aims to extend its current base of 100 Private Hire Taxi Operators.
www.minicabit.com

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Author:  grandad [ Thu May 16, 2013 4:08 pm ]
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It sounds like it is a directory of licensed private hire operators. Providing that a call from this app is answered by an operator at his operating address and that this operator is using a vehicle from his area and a driver from his area, I can't see a problem.
Author:  captain cab [ Thu May 16, 2013 7:00 pm ]
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Quote:
By uniquely including quotes from licensed Private Hire Taxi operators beyond the user’s local area


Where the booking is received is the area that must dispatch the vehicle - with the vehicle and driver both being licensed by the same operator that dispatches the job.

Quote:
As a result of opening up the market to more customers


The market isn't any more open now than it was in 1976.

Of course the larger danger is that private hire folks will see this app and think they can sign up for it without working under the umbrella of a operators license?
Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Thu May 16, 2013 9:02 pm ]
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captain cab wrote:
Quote:
By uniquely including quotes from licensed Private Hire Taxi operators beyond the user’s local area

Where the booking is received is the area that must dispatch the vehicle - with the vehicle and driver both being licensed by the same operator that dispatches the job.

Quote:
As a result of opening up the market to more customers

The market isn't any more open now than it was in 1976.

Of course the larger danger is that private hire folks will see this app and think they can sign up for it without working under the umbrella of a operators license?

Don't worry Captain.

The Law Commission will soon have a Draft Bill ready for it all to be legal, once it passes through Parliament.
Author:  captain cab [ Fri May 17, 2013 12:08 am ]
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Brummie Cabbie wrote:
Don't worry Captain.

The Law Commission will soon have a Draft Bill ready for it all to be legal, once it passes through Parliament.


ffs I hope this aint just them against me?
Author:  Sussex [ Fri May 17, 2013 7:47 am ]
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captain cab wrote:
ffs I hope this aint just them against me?

They have changed the one policy that most out here care about, they can do what they like with the rest of their policies.

Of course those people haven't worked out the gov have the final say, and all those other policies in time will make that one policy irrelevant.

In this trade long term is the end of the week.
Author:  Tico [ Fri May 17, 2013 9:42 am ]
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captain cab wrote:
Brummie Cabbie wrote:
Don't worry Captain.

The Law Commission will soon have a Draft Bill ready for it all to be legal, once it passes through Parliament.


ffs I hope this aint just them against me?



i think it good as long as car is stil licenced if it kill ph firms off and free driver from silly rates and high radio rental an make ph pay as you go instead it all look good to me
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