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New Delhi: Ride-sharing firms Uber and Ola did not break price-fixing rules, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) said in a ruling issued late on Tuesday in response to a complaint about their technological pricing strategy. A case brought by a private individual against the holding companies of the two firms claimed that their algorithmic pricing model “takes away the liberty of individual drivers to compete with each other and thus, amounts to price fixing”. In its judgement, the CCI ruled that there was no evidence the two companies had conspired to fix prices. [caption id=“attachment_5467541” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  The logos of Uber and Ola. Image: CNN-News18[/caption] “The drivers may have acceded to the algorithmically-determined prices by the platform (but) this cannot be said to be amounting to collusion between the drivers,” the CCI said. Uber and Ola have also faced allegations from domestic rival Meru that investments in both companies by Japan’s SoftBank was evidence that they were abusing their market position. Uber declined to comment. Ola did not respond to requests for comment.
A case brought by a private individual against the holding companies of Ola, Uber claimed that their algorithmic pricing model amounts to price fixing
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