CDG quietly increase call levy
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sorry it's 40 cents per call during peak hour!my mistake.
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When ah???
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Originally posted by foolsh_2000:
sorry it’s 40 cents per call during peak hour!my mistake.
u want to get lawyer letter from cdg?
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I was thinking Comfort would not take such as move at this point of time since it is right now fighting GrabTaxi and especially since it achieved its call-booking target last year with 35.6 million comfirned calls.
I know a number of Comfort drivers are already also on GrabTaxi's network for calls. a raise-price move now would cause more Comfort's drivers to attend to GrabTaxi's call more often and would cause a bigger long-term marketshare loss to Comfort.
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Originally posted by Neutral-Thinker:
I was thinking Comfort would not take such as move at this point of time since it is right now fighting GrabTaxi and especially since it achieved its call-booking target last year with 35.6 million comfirned calls.
I know a number of Comfort drivers are already also on GrabTaxi's network for calls. a raise-price move now would cause more Comfort's drivers to attend to GrabTaxi's call more often and would cause a bigger long-term marketshare loss to Comfort.
TS go wrong hole ...
cos he tot CDG 30 cents levy only
But in fact all along , CDG implement a peak and non peak call levy charge
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Of course lah,coy alrdy earn fr rental,but GT only earn ur 40cents!so that's why they are marketing their grabcar aggressively
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cdg now also panic.
got 3rd party app for calls, what makes them special is no longer special now
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Comfort where got panic....only would not earn as much as before and would still be 7-digit profit for call-bookings alone not including taxi rental.
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u believe them ar then,pigs also can fly!
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It's just that the MDT system meets all requirements....and is very integrated.
True GrabTaxi's app may be slightly better (seems to me only real advantage is they allow customers to see where the on-called taxi is) but that is just about it. Comfort one customer must call to find out where taxi is.
But other than that, GrabTaxi has no real advantage. Comfort has a market share of slightly more than 16000 taxis wheras Grabtaxi has only around 10000-12000 so they are taking loses to try to gain more taxi drivers to support them.
Comfort had 35.6 million comfirmed call-bookings last year. If each call they make average of $0.35, then it brings in around $12.46 million (not including additional money from credit card, nets and ezlink fees) out of which some money has to been spent on the MDT group, replacing and servicing MDTs, some on the software group that maintains the web, modile app and MDT software updates, GPS tracking fees and some on the call-booking group. So it definitely it is 7 digit profit. All these money totally generated from the 16000 taxi drivers.
Grabtaxi invested $136 million in R&D in Singapore. But don't know why that amount is so much as there does not seem to be a lot more to update for the softwares. In fact, it could operate just by renting a floor of office space. Additional software improvements would not improve sales. It is agressive marketing and getting more taxi drivers to sign up that would improve sales and better R&D. At least that is the case in Singapore; don't about the case for Grabtaxi functioning in other countries.
Comfort already provides more calls for its drivers than needed.. I seldom see taxis from other 4 taxi companies leaving halfway without passengers after queuing up at taxi stands but often see Comfort taxis leaving halfway. This means call-bookings for Comfort at this point of time is still substantially more than from GrabTaxi. They would always enjoy at least 57% marketshare of on-call businesses.even if Grabtaxi is able to get all drivers from the other 4 taxi companies to sign up although there are double-head snakes that are both on Comfort MDT and Grabtaxi.
So Comfort would not be panicking ..... just hating the entry ot Grabtaxi and Uber into the market they once dominated.
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Alamak, up till now, you guys still do not understand the relationship between comfort and grab, so, i shall repeat it again. Cdg and grab calls are of the same major shareholder aka Temasek. Before grab come into the picture, cdg calls was nos 1, no horse run, and even tho with 16000 cabs, they are unable to cope with the nos of call, many paxs kpkb no taxi to pick them up and with the increase of populations, more worst. So they decided to sublet some of their call to TC and SMRT, however, that violated their organisation protocol. Remember that time, TC and SMRT suddenly got surge of calls, because cdg drivers either cannot handle it or too howlian to take it. And since our telecom infrastructure had modernised into 3 to 4G technologies.. temasek in their top table discussion, noticed the business opportunity to tap on it, they decided and allowed grabtaxis to enter out taxi industrial on one condition and that is temasek be the biggest shareholders, As GT is global in nature, it can penetrate any country that have a good telecom network of at least 3G and above, and at the same time, they can also be use by any other taxi companies' driver. So, in a nutshell, let me simply put it, cdg and grab calls profits goes into the same pocket. And we argueing for just the sake of argueing.
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By introducing grab, they achieved 3 main objectives, 1) stopped taxis paxs from kpkb about called, but no taxis 2) allowed all color of taxis to use it 3) and with more drivers using it of course, earn more profit. and finally on the hindsight, prevented cdg drivers from getting more and more howlian
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I did not know Temasek largest shareholder of GrabTaxi. Surprised also because the founder GrabTaxi got rich family background.
Anyway, taxi drivers do not see GrabTaxi as a hostile organization. Taxi drivers where got howlian? Just cannot cope with demand during certain hours or too near taxi stands so sometimes don't take calls that are too far away (or in opposite direction) or one look cannot recognize immediately where it is (must stop and check map so let go). Peak hours sometimes see 10 calls in 3 minutes but can only take 1 call.
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Originally posted by bowah:
By introducing grab, they achieved 3 main objectives,
1) stopped taxis paxs from kpkb about called, but no taxis
2) allowed all color of taxis to use it
3) and with more drivers using it of course, earn more profit.and finally on the hindsight, prevented cdg drivers from getting more and more howlian
howlian? u referring to blackies n merc drivers?
Normal sampan wats there to howlian?
Maybe can howlian abt the number of GT calls they take la lol
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I refer to last time lah, last time when my ex chief was with cdg..seibei howlian one, that time cdg is the real earning and top brother of all taxis...now..many meadowed down liao, some even get bullied by SMRT and TC drivers
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Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank Corp had invested $250 million in GrabTaxi, the largest mobile taxi booking app firm in Southeast Asia, to become its largest shareholder.
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Only wondering why they bothered investing as additional money and additional improvement of software does not equate to more sales (more money made). Maybe they are preparing to take more losses initially to gain marketshare in Singapore.
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how come the title of thread doesn.t match the postings!suddenly feng shui master coming in.
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Originally posted by bowah:
I refer to last time lah, last time when my ex chief was with cdg..seibei howlian one, that time cdg is the real earning and top brother of all taxis…now..many meadowed down liao, some even get bullied by SMRT and TC drivers
Wah lau give him a break la
Again pull Mr pool in lol
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How to give him a break, by mentioning him is like mentioning our beloved LKY, at least keep him in our mind mah, like it or not, he was once taxi king of Singapore..his forum was best training ground for all newbies. So by mentioning him, at least he feels happy and proud mah, even under the earth also rest in peace better mah..tio bo
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Originally posted by foolsh_2000:
how come the title of thread doesn.t match the postings!suddenly feng shui master coming in.
Aiya, you also same mah, every thread you post will end up with LTA trees prunting stories..tio bo. Therefore, it is very important in life to know who you are talking or dealing with, in the case of TDs TCSS and forum, dun expect things be the same..why, because 10 TDs, 10 axxholes mah -
Originally posted by bowah:
How to give him a break, by mentioning him is like mentioning our beloved LKY, at least keep him in our mind mah, like it or not, he was once taxi king of Singapore..his forum was best training ground for all newbies.
So by mentioning him, at least he feels happy and proud mah, even under the earth also rest in peace better mah..tio bo
taxi king of Singapore???
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Aiya, everything also got king mah, durian king mao shan wang, idle King, chao keng king, sabo king...so taxi also got king mah, but only for a while only. In every man life, there is alway up and down, sad thing is that when it is up, many do not know how to take the opportunity given and appreciate the high time, and when down time arrived...
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ang mo give title 'king' , as in king, queen, prince, etc
teng nang give title 'low' or 'gwei' , as in taxi low , hum sup low, mala low , haha
also got jiu gwei, se gwei, kiao gwei,
and the combination of both gives gwei low , haha