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New app-cab services that promise no-surge pricing

Updated: Sun, Sep 17, 2017
11:19 am
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Three new app-cab service providers are banking on 'surge-free' pricing tagline to grab a piece (rpt) piece of the burgeoning taxi market, particularly during the coming festive season.

At the time when complaints are rampant from customers against dominant players Ola and Uber for high surge pricing during peak hours, the new entrants -- Tygr, Yatrik and OTL Cabs -- drew strategies around surge pricing.

The first two had unveiled apps trying to tap yellow and white and blue some 30,000 metered taxis on city roads.

Tygr, with 3,000-odd taxis under its fold, would launch its app tomorrow with the catch-line of 'travel surge-free'.

"Our unique service preposition is travelling surge free. It will be governed by the state transport taxi fare. We are offering an array of digital payment modes," Tygr App co-founder and CEO Aditya Poddar told

 

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