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US: Uber versus Taxicab Commission – With whom did FTC side?

By  |  June 13, 2013

Mobile phone application Uber, which is used to hail taxicabs, has been backed by the Federal Trade Commission in an ongoing dispute with the DC Taxicab Commission. Reports say the FTC has sent a letter to the taxi group warning it that its recently-proposed policies that issue restrictions on phone applications like Uber are too strict and could harm innovation and “unnecessarily impede competition.” The taxi group currently bans electronic fare payments. Washington, DC’s city council had recently passed an amendment legalizing such applications. A similar conflict occurred in Denver, Colorado last March, in which the FTC also backed Uber and its competing apps.

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