Iran Ride-Hailing Apps Controversy
Traditional taxi services have grown disconcerted as ride-hailing startups (Snapp and TAP30) become popular and disrupt their business. Affordable fares could be named as the main reasons why traditional taxi services have lost market share to the Internet-based ride-hailing services.
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April 14,2021Iran’s second largest ride-hailing company Tap30 has released its annual report, revealing that in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2021), the number of urban travels declined slightly in... -
November 18,2019With Iran’s largest ride-hailing company, Snapp, signing a deal with Tehran Municipality, the long-drawn fracas between urban managers and online mobility service providers has come to a close....
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November 16,2019Iranian public nerves have frayed since the early hours of Friday when a sharp surge in fuel prices was followed by dark shadows over major Iranian online mobility service providers, Snapp and...
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October 16,2019Uber and Lyft are household names across the world, in the absence of which in Iran, two startups, Snapp and Tap30, set up online ridesharing platforms that have become vastly popular. From their...
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September 28,2019Over the past two days, CEOs of Iranian online taxi firms, government and municipality officials, as well as unionists have had a hectic time on Twitter clashing over the taxation of local...
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August 26,2019Tehran Municipality took Iran E-Commerce Union to court on Monday over “illegally” issuing permits to local ride-hailing companies Snapp and Tap30. Mohammad Rahmani, the union’s lawyer, told Webna...
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August 17,2019Tehran Municipality has filed a lawsuit against Iran E-Commerce Union, arguing that the latter has illegally issued permits to online taxi firms like Snapp and Tap30, and demanding the revocation...
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July 27,2019Tehran Municipality intends to charge ride-hailing firms operating in the capital a 2% tax and the startups are fighting the idea tooth and nail. Mohsen Pourseyyed Aqaei, managing director of TM’s...
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May 04,2019Tap30, the second most popular ride-hailing app in Iran, is planning to connect its security system directly to the police for improving the safety of passengers. The plan was discussed when a...
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April 21,2019Sensitive data on thousands of Iranian drivers working with ride-hailing firm TAP30 was left unsecure in a publicly available database, a cyber threat intelligence expert discovered. Alerting Iran...
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April 13,2019Iran’s ride-hailing firm TAP30 has signed a $7.3 million investment agreement with two subsidiaries of Bank Saman. In return for a stake in the online taxi company, Saman Electronic Payment (SEP...
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March 06,2019In return for an 8.5% stake in online taxi company TAP30, Saman Electronic Payment (SEP), affiliated to Bank Saman, has invested an undisclosed amount in the ride-hailing firm.
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March 04,2019A bill proposed by the Interior Ministry that put online taxi firms’ survival at stake and could wipe out thousands of jobs has been dismissed by Cabinet. If ratified by the parliament, the bill...
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February 23,2019The fight over the future of ride-hailing firms has intensified with company directors and unionists sounding the alarm that online taxi firms’ survival is at the stake. A bill proposed by the...
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October 31,2018If the government decides to reintroduce the fuel rationing system that ended in 2015 without allowing higher quotas to drivers working with ride-hailing companies, over 700,000 jobs will be...
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October 27,2018The government of President Hassan Rouhani is mulling reintroduction of the gasoline rationing system that ended in 2015 and the restrictions could, and very likely will, harm ride-hailing...
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October 03,2018In a bid to scale its activities, major ride-hailing firm Tap30 has introduced a phone service currently operational in Tehran.
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October 01,2018Imam Khomeini Airport City is trying to limit online taxis from offering services at the premises of Iran’s main international airport, the CEO told reporters on Sunday. Shahram Adamnejad said, “...
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September 12,2018In a bid to expand its market and hoping to gain a competitive edge in Iran’s saturated transportation sector, one of the country’s leading startups, Tap30 has introduced a real-time ride-sharing...
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August 13,2018The widespread clash between ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft on one side and authorities and old-school cabbies around the globe has made its way to Iran, with municipalities across the...
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May 16,2018In a gathering to report MTN-Irancell’s activities and projects, ride-hailing company Snapp, supported by the mobile operator, announced statistics regarding the service’s fortunes. During the...
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April 23,2018The widely used ride-hailing application Snapp will pursue new business opportunities by merging its program with hotel reservation apps and collaborating with Irancell to unveil a SnappPay...
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March 10,2018Snapp unveiled an application labeled “Promoter App” to computerize the recruitment process for new drivers. The application allows field marketers to submit applicant information on the program...
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February 28,2018Leaving out major players like Snapp, Tap30 and Carpino, there are over two dozen ride-hailing services in Iran with observers saying that the market is reaching saturation point. According to the...
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February 21,2018The recruitment process of taxi app companies is undergoing change as job applicants are now assessed by the police. According to news website Digiato, the police have established an online...
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