COMFORTDELGRO FIRST TO OFFER NFC-ENABLED FASTCALLTAXI BOOKING AT OVER 400 LOCATIONS IN SINGAPORE

Singapore, 7 October, 2011 – ComfortDelGro today announced the launch of a Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled option for its FastCall automated taxi booking services at over 400 locations across Singapore.
This service will commence on 8 October across all these locations.
FastCall allows commuters to book a Comfort or CityCab taxi by simply dialing the FastCall hotline at 64542222 and entering a location PIN, or by SMS-ing the location PIN to 71222. With this latest offering in partnership with Nokia, taxi commuters can simply tap their NFC-enabled phone on counter-top booking displays at any of these locations, to initiate a taxi booking via SMS to the taxi booking system. An SMS confirmation of the taxi booking will be sent to their mobile phones.
Said Mr Yang Ban Seng, ComfortDelGro Chief Executive Officer (Taxi Business): “This FastCall NFC taxi booking is yet another quick and easy way for our commuters to book our cabs.”
This tie-up is yet another way in which ComfortDelGro is leveraging on technology to make taxi booking more convenient for commuters.
A strong testament of that was when ComfortDelGro won an award for “Innovation in Business” category for its taxi booking system at the 12th Annual Business Award, hosted by the British Chamber of Commerce, just two days ago.
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ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited

205 Braddell Road Singapore 579701 www.comfortdelgro.com

Co. Registration No.: 200300002K

Background

ComfortDelGro is the world’s second largest publicly-listed land transport company with a total fleet size of more than 46,300 buses, taxis and rental vehicles. It operates in seven countries - Singapore, China, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Vietnam and Malaysia

– giving it the broadest footprint amongst its international peers. Currently, overseas ventures account for 42.0% of Group revenue. The Group aims to derive 70% of its total revenue from overseas in the medium term. ComfortDelGro is also the largest taxi operator in Singapore. Its taxi companies, Comfort Transportation and CityCab manage a fleet of over 15,700 taxis.