Singaporean ride-hailing app Grab seems to be an entitled service provider in the Philippines.
A group this early criticized the decision of the LTFRB to grant 100,000 TNVS slots to Grab. Digital Pinoys national campaigner Ronald Gustilo called the LTFRB decision an abuse of dominance and could lead to outright monopoly. He urged the government to help other transport network companies that can fill the gap in demand instead of granting the slots to just one company.
Can Guadiz grant franchises to MC taxis when the program is still in its testing stage? Granting MC taxi franchises to Grab in itself is contentious. For the sake of argument, those MC taxi franchises should be given to Move It, and not Grab Grab Philippines country head Grace Vera Cruz echoed Jacinto’s statement in a CNN interview on September 15, 2022. “Move It exists as a separate entity and Move It has the license for the pilot or the accreditation for the pilot. It doesn’t automatically mean that Grab is going to participate in the pilot through Grab as the shareholder. What it means is Grab is a shareholder of Move It and Move It continues to be the participant in the motorcycle taxi pilot,” says Cruz.