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The CCI director general has issued letters to several handset makers including Samsung<\/a>, Xiaomi<\/a>, Karbonn<\/a> and Lava<\/a>, seeking information on terms and conditions of agreements with Google. The CCI also wants to know if Google imposed any restrictions on using the company's mobile apps and services over eight years beginning April 2011.
It has also sought details of \"licence fee or royalty payments made to Google for using Android OS and Google mobile services on a yearly basis, from April 2011 till March 2019\".
ET has seen a copy of the CCI letter to companies, which was sent last month.
The companies were given two weeks to respond as the ongoing investigation is \"time bound\". While the companies confirmed receipt of the notice, they declined to comment.
The regulator began its probe into Google's operating system in mid-April following complaints that Android - which had 99% share of the Indian market as of March 2019 - was blocking out others. Google has said that it will work with the watchdog. People aware of the matter said Google executives will likely be called to appear before the regulator as part of the inquiry.
This is the second such investigation for the Mountain View, California-headquartered company in India.
136-cr Fine Levied in 2018 10
In February 2018, the CCI had imposed a Rs 136-crore fine on Google India for search bias and abusing its dominant position on a complaint filed in 2012.
Google was asked to pay $5 billion (Rs 35,000 crore) by European Union regulators last year after they found it guilty of abusing Android's market dominance on three counts - bundling the search engine and Chrome app into the OS; blocking phone makers from creating devices that run forked-versions of Android; and making payments to certain large manufacturers and mobile network operators to exclusively bundle the Google search app on handsets.
Other details sought by CCI include the annual sale of devices by operating system (OS) for brands, smartphones and tablets between 2011 and 2019. It has also asked for information on mobile application distribution, anti-fragmentation, Android compatibility or any other agreement with Google or any of its units in the same period. Companies wanting Google apps have to sign an anti-fragmentation agreement, which means they can't pick and choose what apps to offer from the suite of products.
Handset makers will also have to share information on their own app stores, the number of apps they feature, yearly investment on R&D, maintenance and upgradation of app stores and yearly revenue in the same period. The CCI has also asked whether the app stores of rivals can be installed on smartphones and sought details on this.
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CCI总经理已经发布了字母等手机制造商三星,小米,Karbonn和熔岩,寻求与谷歌的协议的条款和条件的信息。CCI也想知道谷歌强加任何限制使用公司的移动应用程序和服务在八年2011年4月开始。
同时也寻求细节“执照费或特许使用金为使用谷歌Android操作系统和谷歌移动服务在每年的基础上,从2011年4月到2019年3月”。
等了一份CCI信公司,这是上个月发送。
公司有两周的时间来回应为正在进行的调查是“时间约束”。而公司确认收到通知,他们拒绝置评。
监管机构开始调查谷歌的Android操作系统在4月中旬之后抱怨——有99%的印度市场份额在2019年3月,阻止了其他人。谷歌曾表示,它将与监督工作。人们意识到的人士说,谷歌高管可能会打电话来朝见监管机构,作为调查的一部分。
这是第二次调查山景,California-headquartered公司在印度。
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2018年2月,CCI实施价值136卢比的罚款在谷歌搜索偏见和印度滥用其主导地位在2012年提起申诉。
谷歌被要求支付50亿美元(35000卢比)欧盟监管机构去年后他们发现犯有三项滥用Android的市场主导地位——捆绑搜索引擎和浏览器应用到操作系统;阻止手机制造商创建Android设备运行forked-versions;和支付某些大型制造商和移动网络运营商专门包手机上的谷歌的搜索应用程序。
其他细节的CCI包括年度销售设备的操作系统(OS)品牌,2011年和2019年之间的智能手机和平板电脑。它还要求信息在移动应用程序分布,分割,与谷歌Android兼容或任何其他协议或它的任何单位在同一时期。公司希望Google apps必须签署一份分割协议,这意味着他们不能选择应用程序提供的套件产品。
手机制造商还必须在自己的应用程序商店共享信息,应用程序的数量特征,每年投资研发、维护和升级的应用程序商店和每年的收入在同一时期。CCI也被问及竞争对手可以安装在智能手机上的应用程序商店和寻求细节。
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