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Philippines Gives Uber Its First Legal Framework To Operate In Asia
An anonymous reader writes: The Philippines has given Uber a rare boost in its hard-fought Asian territories, by granting new legislation that provides rules within which it may legally operate. To this end the country's Department of Transportation and Communications has created a new category of ride called the Transportation Network Vehicle Service (TNVS) classification — whilst at the same time mollifying beleaguered indigenous taxi-services by creating an equivalent classification for an app-hailed taxi able to accept credit cards. As with all its other negotiations in Asia, the fruits of Uber's consultation with the Philippine government was prefaced by unorganized invasion, trade complaints, bans and general conflict.
It sounds like you have failed to pick up on the obvious: Uber's business model is to break the rules, expose their mass stupidity and unfairness and then get the rules changed to benefit their customers. Why do it this way? Because the only way to change the rules is to break them thus getting the attention of the rule makers... You think the taxi lobby in would be willing to allow TNVS under any other circumstances?
How is this a troll?
"I own a taxi company and don't want anything to change as I'm raking it in" != "this post is a troll."
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