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Google says the Indian competition regulator\u2019s order is a \u201cmajor setback for Indian consumers and businesses\u201d and it is reviewing the decision to evaluate \u201cnext steps.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Competition Commission of India fined Google $161.9 million on Thursday for anti-competitive practices related to Android mobile devices and ordered a number of redressal measures that could force Google to make fundamental changes to its business strategies.<\/p>\n
A Google told in a statement that the regulator\u2019s order also opens \u201cserious security risks for Indians who trust Android\u2019s security features,\u201d and raises the \u201ccost of mobile devices for Indians.\u201d<\/p>\n
The company did not say what steps it may take, but industry analysts believe that Google will very likely challenge the order.<\/p>\n
The antitrust watchdog said in its statement Thursday that device manufacturers should not be forced to install Google\u2019s bouquet of apps and the search giant should not deny access to its Play Services APIs and monetary and other incentives to vendors.<\/p>\n
India is Google\u2019s largest market by users. Google\u2019s Android operating system powers 97% of the country\u2019s 600 million smartphones, according to research firm Counterpoint.<\/p>\n
Google in 2020\u00a0pledged to invest $10 billion in the South Asian market\u00a0over the coming years. It has already financed up to $5.5 billion in the\u00a0local telecom giants Jio Platforms\u00a0and\u00a0Airtel.<\/p>\n
The watchdog was investigating whether Google had assumed dominant position in five different markets: licensable OS for smartphones, app store, web search services, non-OS specific mobile web browsers and online video hosting platform in India.<\/p>\n
Google was dominant in all of those relevant markets, the regulator concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Google says the Indian competition regulator\u2019s order is a \u201cmajor setback for Indian consumers and businesses\u201d and it is reviewing the decision to evaluate \u201cnext steps.\u201d The Competition Commission of India fined Google $161.9 million on Thursday for anti-competitive practices related to Android mobile devices and ordered a number of redressal measures that could force […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}