Europe gets the ticket to Google’s practical monopoly on Android – LaTercera (Registro)

In 2013, the group FairSearch next to rival companies who seek to not be affected by the dominance of Google in the market of search engines, filed a complaint with the European Commission, accusing the company, a subsidiary of Alphabet, of monopolistic practices.

FairSearch accused Google of paying handset manufacturers to pre-install its search engine. In addition, they reported the preinstallation default from the Google Play store and other applications on devices with the Android operating system, owned by Google.

In April, the European Commission said that the technology giant used its mobile operating system dominance (Android) to marginalize rivals. In a 150-page document, the agency asked Google to stop this type of practices in all of the devices that are manufactured with Android, with the purpose of users to have the benefit of greater freedom of choice at the time you be faced with the dispute of choosing between apps and services for your mobile devices. In addition, proposes to establish a million-dollar fine.

"the European Commission has The intention to establish a sanction at a level that ensures halt the conditions that Google has imposed on the manufacturers of smartphones", points out the statement of charges already in the possession of the company.

According to the agency Reuters, the European Union (EU) attempts to establish a fine "sufficient to ensure deterrence".

In the statement of objections issued by the entity antitrust of the EU, it was noted that plans to tell Google to stop making discounts, or payments to manufacturers of mobile phones to change to pre-install the digital store Google Play along with the seeker.

Likewise, the regulators aim to prevent the company obliges manufacturers of advanced telephony to pre-install applications if that limits the ability of using operating systems set in Android.

The company has until 31 October to respond to the demand.

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In its defence, Google said, "we are anxious to show the European Commission that we have designed the model Android in a way that is good both for competition and for consumers and that support innovation in the entire region."

To this demand you could add the open file against your sales site online Google Shopping, where a significant number of companies have accused the company of prioritising their service purchases in search results for certain products.