Iran Ride-Hailing Apps Controversy

Iran’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…

With 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…

Uber 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.

Over 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…

Tehran 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…

Tehran 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…

Tehran Municipality intends to charge ride-hailing firms operating in the capital a 2% tax and the startups are fighting the idea tooth and nail.

Tap30, 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…

Sensitive 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’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…

In 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. In a letter to…

A 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 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…

The 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…

In a bid to scale its activities, major ride-hailing firm Tap30 has introduced a phone service currently  operational in Tehran.

Despite the widespread use of smartphones and users…

In 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-…

The 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…

In 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.

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The 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…

Snapp 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…

Leaving 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.

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The recruitment process of taxi  app companies is undergoing change as job applicants are now assessed by the police.

Russian ride-hailing service Maxim is set to enter the Iranian market, a company representative Pavel Stennikov announced.

Stennikov says the company has already received permits from…

The National Competition Council says it will introduce a new mechanism for overseeing operations of ride-hailing services.

It is to announce a pricing system for services offered by…

Drivers of ride-hailing services like Snapp and Tap30 are exempted from paying tax for now, the director of Iranian National Tax Administration told reporters on August 20.

A point that…