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yeah I agree - but this 40 billion dollar company aint any threat whatsoever

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Agree, they don't need the office. But they have one and it needs licenced.

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You are paying for the technology to facilitate the booking of taxis/Phc directly between the customer and the service provider. You are not hiring a cab from Uber.



I agree but I think this is where the taxi and Ph companies are getting it wrong. They see Uber as a Taxi/Ph company and not just a technology platform.

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Anyhoo, what do City Cabs, CRT and ECPH have to worry about when they've got the likes of Dougie, Uber afterall is only a $40 Billion dollar company.


http://www.standard.co.uk/business/busi ... 84397.html

An app that lets you summon a taxi at the touch of a button could soon be worth more than the likes of Tesco, Rolls-Royce, Twitter and easyJet.

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The same could be said of an operation which hires radios to drivers and takes telephone bookings for them from the customer.
Phone App or pen and paper, makes no difference to the CGSA.

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BTW, I can see the short term advantages but will slaves to uber be any better off in the long run than radio company slaves? I doubt it.

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No, it makes a difference because you are not hiring a cab from Uber but you are from City Cabs, CRT, etc. As they are registered as taxi companies and operate as such.

The customer merely uses the app technology to hire a taxi/Phc direct from the driver. The contract exists between the customer and the driver. Now while I agree that Uber might monitor the drivers to protect the use of their technology, it is not a taxi/ph company in the way that City or CRT is.

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despite what uber may claim - because they are the operator the contract is with them.

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Nope, I don't agree. They might well be going down this route in a bid to stop any resistance to their app but the technology does exactly the same job whether it is licensed or not.

The council is using the CGSA, to licence a phone technology platform that a driver might or might not use.

Think about it, Uber is promoting the Rideshare app as a means of hiring a taxi, they are not claiming to be a taxi company.



Uber is an App

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Skull we don't see Uber as Taxi/Ph, we see the reality, we want them and there drivers regulated as we are, the Scotland bill covers the rise of this kind of App, a reminder though, we have had an App for over 2 years, it's tried and trusted, the fares charged to the customer are on the meter or fixed for out of town, our App complies with the regulation, Uber doesn't and won't!

Talking about the rise, there has to be a fall

https://www.youtube.com/embed/WlT-msMY3sI

Falling in and out of Love with a cab company from a customers point is just as old as the trade itself

The Edinburgh market is to small for Uber, you should know this to be the case, price surging at peak times is laughable but is also illegal

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Scenario: New Years morning 1:30 am Edinburgh, Punter, I'll book a cab with Uber, to take me home to Livingston, Price surge quote from Uber £500, me Go feck yerself I'll walk

The scenario is based on real quotes from Uber

https://www.youtube.com/embed/WlT-msMY3sI

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Dougie, Uber is setting up in Edinburgh exactly the way you want it, no unregulated vehicles or unlicensed drivers, only Street Cars and PHC.

Now think about it Dougie, 300 street cars and God only knows how many Ph sign up for Uber? Oh and that's not counting anyone who wants to put on a Ph to work part-time. It's easy now because you don't have to sign up to a company ripping the [edited by admin] out of you with extortionate radio dues.

The pressure is all one way Dougie and it's got to hurt...

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Don't talk shi*!

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