Application based taxi aggregator Uber is keeping its alternatives open to having its own payment wallet in India in spite of its present joint effort with Paytm that permits riders to pay digitally. "We recently announced our partnership with Paytm and I think part of Uber's success and strategy is to work with local companies. From my perspective, I... like to have local partnerships to make the service available to our customers," Eric Alexander, Head of Business, Uber Asia, said when asked about the proposal of having its own payment wallet. "We are happy to continue with that. I am not going to say that (dropping the idea of having an own wallet). We always got our options open." About surge evaluating, Alexander said that it is controlled by supply-request position at a given time and the pricing is done by PC created calculation.
A senior authority of Uber had as of late told that it was assessing choices to have its own particular payment wallet as it finds that the two-factor authentication forced by the Reserve Bank of India gets to be lumbering for its riders while making payments through credit or debit cards. On the procedural part, he said that the evaluating is done automatically by the system relying upon free market activity at one point and the organization does not have any "evil aim to profit utilizing surge estimating".
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"It is not something that we at Uber control. It is not someone sitting at a computer that they decide to turn on the surge. It is purely a market-based algorithm. Surge is not something that we want to use to make extra money," he said. "It is a technology solution to allow riders that they are willing to pay the price at that point of time to get a car."
On the organization's further expansion plans, he said that at this moment Uber services are available in 27 urban communities and the figure may go up to 50 in the present year. On the issue of the consistence of local or different state laws, he said the taxi aggregator is working with different state governments. It must also be noted that the Tata Group on Thursday declared a tie-up with the ride-sharing organization Uber Technologies to offer the drivers and owners on Uber stage comprehensive vehicle purchase and financing solutions, among other benefits.
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