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<\/a> Have Uber\u2019s issues vanished as abruptly as they appeared?<\/b> Uber services appear to be operating normally again after more than a week of disruption, but there remains no word from the company on the reason for the outage, one of the ride-hailing company\u2019s agents tells Al Mal<\/a>. A number of Uber drivers reportedly staged a strike until the service\u2019s functionality was restored. The company\u2019s local agents had also reportedly instructed drivers to rely on VPN<\/a> to sidestep the disruption. In tests overnight, one of us had no problem locating a ride on Uber (without using a VPN). Another of us found that no vehicles were available, but was offered Black and Lux and Van options that were (to us) new.<\/p>\n

Background:<\/b> Earlier last month, we started poking into possible explanations for why Uber has been largely unusable over the past couple of weeks. A source with whom we spoke<\/a> drew a line between the outage and what the source said is ongoing friction over unspecified \u201cchanges\u201d to the still-not-released executive regulations to the ride sharing law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have Uber\u2019s issues vanished as abruptly as they appeared? Uber services appear to be operating normally again after more than a week of disruption, but there remains no word from the company on the reason for the outage, one of the ride-hailing company\u2019s agents tells Al Mal. 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