TAXIMONGER NOW POWERING HYPPTV’S ‘RENT-A-CAB’ INTERACTIVE SERVICE

HyppTV brings Malaysia’s first taxi booking service through TV with “Rent-a-Cab”
TaxiMonger has kicked off the year 2013 with yet another creative endeavour with its first-in-the-world taxi booking service through your television screen. The service, currently offered via Telekom Malaysia Berhad’s (TM) IPTV service – HyppTV, aptly called as ‘Rent-a-Cab’ is now available under HyppTV’s list of inter@ctive channels.

Currently, the taxi booking service offered by TaxiMonger is only available in the Klang Valley area.

Commenting on the latest HyppTV offering, Jeremy Kung, Executive Vice President, New Media, TM said, “HyppTV provides its viewers with more than just entertainment – our various interactive services have always been made to simplify the daily routines of our customers, be it to check the traffic updates with Info Trafik, flight details with Flight Info, to prepare yourself for the day with Weather Forecast, to keep yourself informed with News Headline and to feed your tummies with sumptuous recipes with TryMasak, all in the comfort of your TV. Now, with the “Rent-a-Cab” application on HyppTV made possible through our partnership with TaxiMonger, the first of its kind in Malaysia offering taxi booking service on TV, will definitely add value to your subscriptions.”

TaxiMonger’s Chief Executive Officer, Nizran Noordin said: “Now it is very convenient for the general public to get a taxi via HyppTV particularly for regular destination of travel for example to the airport or even workplace whereby the consumer could have it pre-set.”

Nizran also added, ”Gone are the days when you would have to pick up the telephone to call for taxis to go to the airport and left helpless when you are unattended. Now with this integration with HyppTV, you only need to turn on your TV to book for a taxi.”

This interactive application is available for free to all HyppTV customers with an additional RM2 booking fee applicable on top of the taxi fares, which is paid directly to the taxi driver.

Steps on how to use the TaxiMonger service on HyppTV are as follows;

1) Getting started:
• Before starting, customers are first required to get a TaxiMonger Application PIN at http://taximonger.com/hypptv/ .
• Customers need to set their "Home Location", i.e. their pickup location.
• Customers can also register their Preferred Destination Addresses which allows them to register more than one preferred destination address, with a maximum of 3 addresses.

2) Booking a taxi on HyppTV:
• Choose taxi type - Budget or Executive
• Choose the going to location.
• Choose the pick-up time – Now or any other specific date or time.
• Verify all information and click the ‘Get me A Taxi’ button.

3) Once verified, user need to key-in their HyppTV purchase PIN and click ‘Confirm’.

4) Customers are allowed to book or cancel their booking up to 7 days in advance.

To date, HyppTV is Malaysia’s fastest growing IPTV service offering its customers 114 channels with 28 channels in High Definition (HD) - consisting of 71 premium linear channels, 23 Video-On-Demand (VOD) genres and 20 Interactive channels.

For more info, log on to www.tm.com.my/hypptv and visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/hyppworld.