claims to be analyzing contracts between Google and smartphone makers to verify that there are no agreements that prevent the emergence of alternative platforms
European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, said today that his department is investigating” in detail “contracts Google has with handset manufacturers and operators that use Android, to conclude whether hinder the entry of other players, following a . investigation that began a year ago accusing Google of abusing its dominant position in the segment of searches
“We are looking closely at Google contracts with handset manufacturers and operators using the Android operating system,” he said Vestager in a speech in Amsterdam speech. European Commissioner noted that this analysis is necessary to ensure that “large companies try not protect themselves in a way that stifles innovation.”
The Commission has opened an in-depth investigation on Android , the mobile operating system Google, to determine whether the US giant has promoted “anti-competitive” agreements with manufacturers of phones and tablets to install exclusively on them Android.
the concern in Brussels is that these have prevented development of competing on that platform and Google have linked compulsorily some of its applications and services, thereby hurting other alternative services.
Vestager noted that when a customer buys a smartphone, expected to be ready for it used immediately and is therefore equipped by the manufacturer or network operator with basic applications.
“and this gives innovators an opportunity to expose a new application to the attention of the public,” he said . Vestager
“Our concern is that, by requiring phone makers and operators charged in advance a set of applications Google instead of letting them decide for themselves what applications load, Google could have cut one of the main ways in which new applications can get customers, “he added
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the Commissioner noted that innovation is not just about developing new technology but also to discover new ways of doing business, so that in this case” innovators would have no way to reach customers have to say to Amazon when they offer “.
Vestager research that Brussels has opened on contracts that Amazon states with publishers, who assume that these are also referred to” better treatment to competitors or different “, which considered that it might” discourage “sellers of digital books to develop innovative business models.
” of course, our research on Google and Amazon are still open, so I can not say yet if any of the two has broken the rules (European Competition), “said the curator.
” But I can say that innovation matters, consumers and we as Competition authorities “concluded
Agency EFE
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