Google Receives $161.9M Antitrust Fine in India, Its Largest Online Search Market – Spiceworks News and Insights
On Thursday, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) penalized Google 1,337.76 million or $161.9 million for anticompetitive conduct in the mobile device space. The regulator concluded after a three-and-a-half-year-long investigation that Google abused its dominant position in “multiple markets.”
The $161.9 million fine goes hand-in-hand with an order to reorient its strategy and conduct that has so far resulted in:
- Users continuing to leverage its search engine on mobile devices, thus enabling “uninterrupted” growth in ad revenue
- Enabling the Alphabet-owned company to “invest and improve its services to the exclusion of others”
CCI’s probe revealed that Google’s edge over competitors stems from mandatorily pre-installed Google Mobile Suite on mobile devices, something that violates Section 4(2)(a)(i) of India’s Competition Act.
Google’s anticompetitive transgressions, according to the CCI, also pertain to denying market access to competitors in online search [Section 4(2)(c)],…
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