PANOORIN: Opisyal ng Uber na si Mike Brown, nag-sorry sa LTFRB; nangakong makikipagtulungan sa ahensya | @JohnsonDZMM pic.twitter.com/vIQnR9hn5H — DZMM TeleRadyo (@DZMMTeleRadyo) August 16, 2017

MANILA - A high-ranking official of ride-hailing service Uber apologized Wednesday to regulators who suspended its operations for supposedly violating a ban on accrediting new drivers.

"Anything you need from us, we're gonna give," Mike Brown, Uber regional manager for South East Asia, told Martin Delgra, chairperson of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB).

"And if there has been a misunderstanding in the past, that's all on us and I apologize for the misunderstanding," added the Uber executive who flew in from Singapore.

Delgra thanked Brown for the apology, but clarified that the LTFRB was not squabbling with Uber, contrary to the firm's recent statement that its "fight" with the government was not yet over.

"The statement that you came up [with] is that the fight is not over. This is not a fight. We're trying to work together here to address public transportation issues," the LTFRB chair said.

LTFRB has wrangled with Uber and rival Grab over the scope of regulation on their services, sparking separate investigations by the Senate and the House of Representatives.

The agency on Monday also suspended the operations of Uber for 1 month for "open defiance" of an order to stop accepting new drivers.

LTFRB and Uber officials held a closed-door meeting Wednesday with the Senate public services committee chaired by Senator Grace Poe. -- Report from Johnson Manabat, ABS-CBN News