MANILA - Officials of car ride-hailing company inDrive said the firm is now compliant with fare regulations, and hope its suspension will soon be lifted.

However, inDrive officials also said they have retained the feature of their platform which allows for passengers and drivers to "choose."

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board earlier suspended inDrive over its business model which allows passengers and drivers to haggle over fares. But inDrive said they have already resolved this issue.

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"We are now compliant in terms of the fare system and we have submitted the changes to the LTFRB and we are waiting for the response from them," said Mohd Zulkarnain, inDrive Public Relations Manager for Southeast Asia.

Afanasy Petrov, inDrive's Business Development Manager for the Philippines however also said the platform will retain its feature which allows passengers to choose which drivers they want to get; and drivers to choose to accept or ignore rides.

The app presents passengers with a list of available drivers, allowing them to choose based on preferences like driver rating, vehicle model, and estimated time of arrival.

Drivers can also choose rides based on pick-up point, and destination, enabling them to select or ignore ride requests.

The company said it is also ready to resume operations once its suspension is lifted.

"When we get the go signal from regulators we will definitely reactivate our business not only in Metro Manila and also for those cities that were mentioned," said Petrov.

The company said its onboarding of drivers has gone faster than expected, but did not say how many drivers have so far enlisted on its platform.

inDrive said it is still working to enlist a "good" number of drivers to satisfy the demand for rides.

Since the exit of global ride-hailing giant Uber from the Philippines in 2018, Grab has been the only viable car ride platform in the country.