In message
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ember.org, at 15:23:31 on Wed, 12 Oct 2016, Recliner
remarked:
One common business model is that you have to rent the 2-way radio from
the minicab firm (and that's a kind of "retainer fee" for the firm). Of
course, Uber has made those redundant.

I think they've been redundant for a while. I use minicabs 3 or 4 times a
year and I can't remember the last time I saw a 2 way radio in one. It was
mobile phones long before Uber came along.

Yes, same here.

I've not been in a minicab for about six years, but the one up until
then had the 2-way radios.
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Roland Perry