Next month it will begin operating in the 10, 14 and 4 zones of the capital, an application that will allow its customers to rent electric scooters.
The application by means of which the electric scooters or scooters can be rented is called Bird, and the project that will start with 100 units will be available to the public from December 2019.
The mobile App, which at the beginning was used for home delivery of products, announced that since November 15 it has been carrying out tests to offer the passenger transport service in the capital of the country.
The company plans to compete in the passenger transport market in San Salvador, but in the future, it plans to expand to other cities where Hugo App already has a presence.
DiDi, an application dedicated to the transportation of people, began operating in the country on November 19, offering its services in San José, Cartago, Alajuela, Heredia and Puntarenas.
At the moment, the Chinese mobile application plans to offer in the country the basic passenger transport service, however, the future plans are to provide premium care, which will include higher capacity cars and special vehicles for people with physical disabilities.
In Panama, a bill seeks to regulate messaging services offered through technological platforms, such as UberEats, Appetito 24, Glovo or Domicilio Don Juan.
The platforms of digital messaging services, such as transport activity, will be regulated, according to the essence of Draft Law 179 proposed in the Transport Commission, informed the National Assembly on October 14. See proposal submitted.
The growing tendency to lease rather than buy, not only real estate and cars, but also services and products, is forcing traditional companies to reinvent themselves completely, not to be left out of the new digital and collaborative economy.
Although in Central America this trend is not yet as marked as in other regions of the world, companies that want to prevail in the future must pre-empt it and begin to redefine their long-term strategies, considering these changes that while leading the new generations, are not alien to other age segments of the population.
Since October 1, technological platforms dedicated to transport services operating in Panama will no longer be able to collect cash from their customers, therefore, payments must be made electronically.
The Transit and Land Transportation Authority (ATTT) announced that since enough time has been allowed, no further extension will be established for cash payment related to Selective Transportation fares through Platforms based on Information and Communications Technology, explains an official statement.
For the company's directors, the bill that seeks to regulate the operation in Panama generates "more uncertainty and affects the investment of multinational companies.”
With the legal framework approved in Costa Rica, which regulates the provision of tourist rental services in housing through digital platforms, Airbnb executives anticipate a considerable drop in the number of hosts in the country.
On September 5, the Legislative Assembly reported that file 20865, the framework law for the regulation of non-traditional hosting and its intermediation through digital platforms, was approved for the second debate.
The use of a certificate of operation, the identification of the car with Uber's logo and the fact that the driver has a type E1 license are some of the proposals that a bill presented to the Assembly compiles.
On September 9, a bill was presented to the National Assembly to amend "Executive Decree No. 331 of October 31, 2017," by which it is intended to impose requirements on drivers who provide the transport service through the Uber platform. See full initiative.
In Costa Rica, the bill to regulate the provision of tourist rental services in housing through digital platforms, which includes a 13% tax and would require suppliers to register, which would make this accommodation option more expensive.
The deputies approved in their first debate, file No. 20,865 Framework Law for the regulation of non-traditional hosting and its intermediation through digital platforms, reported the Assembly on August 28.
With the aim of expanding the market, applications in Guatemala are no longer exclusively dedicated to food delivery, as they propose strategies with supermarkets, clothing stores, pharmacies and shoe stores.
The companies participating in the Guatemalan market agree that there is a great demand for home delivery services, as the complicated transit situation in Guatemala City forces customers to seek alternatives.
The very low-cost system that allows people to tele transport from one place to another will have to pay an additional fee to subsidize the old motorized transport system called taxi.
EDITORIAL
Jorge Cobas Gonzalez
Founder of CentralAmericaData
(A glimpse into the future...)
In this year 2119, the digital application Teletrans, already widely spread all over the world, is installed on the cell phone and allows the person holding it in the hand to indicate on the map the place to go, transporting it almost instantaneously to that destination. The cost of the trip is one cent of a dollar per kilometer, paid through the global system of digital money.
The same free market concept that led to a concession of a taximeter plate of almost zero original cost to reach a value of tens of thousands of dollars, must now be applied to the irruption of collaborative transport services.
Arguing that traditional taxi services and Uber should coexist simultaneously, the government of Costa Rica presented a proposal to regulate the collaborative transport service.
Uber, the computer platform for passenger transportation that has been operating in Costa Rica for more than three years, has faced, as in other markets, the opposition of local taxi drivers, who claim that they compete under unequal conditions.
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