Timesaco offers lifetime discount to commuters on its service

Online taxi service launched in ten major cities

Timesaco - a recently launched online public transport service in Pakistan - has offered lifetime discounts to the commuters for using its service.

It has started online taxi service in ten major cities including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Multan, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Abbottabad, and Gujranwala, and now, is going to extend the radius of its services to other cities.

Timesaco offers 10 per cent lifetime discount on all its services to the employees of public and private organizations working in major cities, Timesaco Chief Executive Officer Donald Li said this while talking to a group of journalists here.

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The company has already offered 10 percent discount for the students, teachers, doctors, senior citizens, security personnel, lawyers and journalists, he said.

He said it has also offered discount rates to those people, who travel to educational institutions and health centers and even those who travel to the marriage halls. He added that human resources departments of all public and private organisations can create groups for their employees on Timesaco’s customer application and can get lifetime discounts for their employees.

Replying to a question, Donald Li said Timesaco has taken a large number of drivers on board from all major cities as plenty of commuters to use its taxi service on daily basis.

He said Timesaco has planned to build internet-based public transportation networks in Pakistan like the Chinese model and using the internet of things (IoT) technology, to provide the best services to the public and private sector.

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He said Timesaco intends to work with the government of Pakistan and to provide its services to build an IoT based transportation network in the near future.

He said his company intends to invest the US $ 20 million in the services sector and creating thousands of jobs and business opportunities in the country.

Timesaco's mission is to build smart transportation and easy logistics ecosystem, and let local business and life more convenient and comfortable, he maintained.