CCI challenges NCLAT's Order in Google Anti-Trust Case
Competition Commission of India – NCLAT’s Order in Google Anti-Trust Case – Google Anti-Trust Case – NCLAT’s Order- taxscan
Competition Commission of India – NCLAT’s Order in Google Anti-Trust Case – Google Anti-Trust Case – NCLAT’s Order- taxscan
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has appealed before the Supreme Court of India since the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) upheld the Rs 1337.76 crore fine imposed on Google by CCI but failed to address all of CCI’s complaints against the company.
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The tech-giant Google has been served with an order from the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), upholding the penalty imposed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), for its anti-competitive policies regarding the model
The NCLAT upheld a penalty imposed by India’s competition regulation body on Google, for its anti-competitive conduct in the Android ecosystem. The tribunal held that a number of Google’s practices pointed to an abuse of dominance, which in some cases, had also stalled scientific development.
In the judgement, the NCLAT allowed Google to warn its users about sideloading (downloading apps outside the Google PlayStore) and said that Google does not need to share its API (Application Programming Interface) with third-party apps. It also said that the pre-installation of Google applications by smartphone manufacturers is not an unfair practice and that the inability to uninstall Google apps does not give rise to competition.
The CCI decided the penalty based on the complaint filed by three Android consumers against Google’s market dominance in: The Indian smartphone operating system market (Android) The app store market for Android smartphones (PlayStore) The market for general web services (Google search) The market for non-OS specific mobile web browsers in India (Chrome) The market for online video hosting platforms (OVHP) in India. (YouTube).
The CCI decided against Google and said that Google must take away its side-loading restrictions, must not force phone manufacturers to pre-install Google applications, and must allow users to choose their phone’s default search engines. These were only some of the many stringent modifications that the CCI asked Google to adhere to.
Against the failure of the Tribunal to address these issues, the CCI appealed before Supreme Court.
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