According to information received from Mamanbiy Omarov, First Deputy Minister of Transport of Uzbekistan, a Chinese company plans to enter the taxi market in Uzbekistan, intending to bring 5,000 cars to the market and launch its own app.
Service outages and the emergence of alternatives
The report about the Chinese company's plans appeared several days after outages hit Yandex services on October 11. These disruptions affected not only Uzbekistan but also Kyrgyzstan, where users faced difficulties ordering taxis and deliveries.
Causes of the service outages
Yandex representatives explained the disruptions by the fact that the services use distributed computing infrastructure. This means that a failure of part of it in one country can affect the availability of functions in another.
Key facts
In connection with the noted outages, the First Deputy Minister of Transport of Uzbekistan reported plans for an alternative service to appear.
