The Commissioner in charge of competition issues, the Danish Margrethe Vestager, “should make an announcement on Wednesday” on Android, he estimated a source close to the investigation. The Commission declined to comment on the issue.
Vestager announced a year that began an investigation to determine whether Google violated the European competition rules with its operating system used in mobile and committing any abuse of dominant position and thereby limiting access to the market for tablets ago operating systems of its competitors.
on Wednesday the Commission should communicate to Google their charges, according to two sources close to the investigation.
in the event that the Commission confirm these accusations, it could inflict a fine of up to 10% of its turnover to Google.
On Monday, Vestager said in a speech in Amsterdam that regulators “should ensure that large companies do not try to protect themselves by restricting innovation.”
“That’s why we look closely Google contracts with handset manufacturers and operators that use the Android operating system, “he said.
The American company, then questioned by AFP, said that “everyone can use Android, with or without Google applications. The device manufacturers and operators can decide how to use Android and consumers have the last word on the applications they want to use. ”
A year ago, when he announced the opening of an investigation into the Android system, the Commission accused Google of abusing its dominant position with its search engine.
The Commission criticized google to bring out their own pages price comparison services or specialized travel search engine detriment of search engines like Bing competitors of Microsoft sites.
Google late August considered “erroneous” allegations of the Commission, which has not yet announced its final decision.
In this case the company could also be fined up to 10% of its turnover, which represents the astronomical figure of 7.400 million. The company reported 2015 sales of 74,500 million dollars.
In a landmark case in 2013, the Commission fined Microsoft 634 million dollars for not allowing users to choose an alternative browser that proposed by the company.
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