Uber now eyes Cambodia

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US-based Uber will conduct a study on the feasibility of operating its ride-sharing services here in Cambodia, its representatives told the Commerce Ministry on Friday. Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak told Uber Asia-Pacific representatives Chan Park and Brian Shroder that the increased proliferation of internet and mobile phone users in the kingdom will only help the company set up shop here.
 

“E-commerce law will come into force very soon and it will be more convenient to boost e-payment which will make the running of Uber’s business here very smooth,” Mr. Sorasak said. He recommended that Uber register with the ministry and cooperate with the Public Works and Transportation Ministry as well as the Post and Telecom Ministry to ensure that the company, currently headquartered in San Francisco, fully understands the local demographic.  
 

According to both Uber representatives, the app-based Uber service is currently updating its technology to make it easier for smartphone users to get to their destinations. On Thursday, Japanese company FIGIX Industry Co. Ltd. in collaboration with a group of Cambodian engineers launched taxi-booking service Itsumo. Its developer guarantees that users will be picked up by a driver within three minutes of a request and will be sent anywhere in the city.

 

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"...Will be picked up within 3 minutes..." ummm, wonder if FIGIX's developer has every been to Phnom Penh? I regularly see cars take 20 minutes to go one block past my apartment.