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The CCI director-general has asked for statistics on India's smartphone base, smartphone and tablet sales trends over the years, operating systems, apps on Android besides data on Internet, from research firms such as Counterpoint Research and International Data Corporation<\/a> India (IDC), people aware of the development said.
The notices were sent last month. These talk about the CCI’s investigation into alleged dominance abuse by Android in the operating system market, mobile app stores, general web search service, web browser apps and video hosting platforms online, people who have seen the notice told ET.
While IDC India has already sent its responses, Counterpoint is in the process of doing so, the people said.
Both research firms declined to comment.
A Google spokesperson countered the allegation of it misusing the market position and said: “We look forward to working with the Competition Commission of India to demonstrate how Android has led to more competition and innovation, not less.”
This is the second set of notices issued by the investigation wing of the antitrust watchdog. It had earlier asked several handset makers to give details of terms and conditions of mobile application distribution, anti-fragmentation, Android compatibility and any other agreement with Google.
Details of licence fee or royalty payments made annually to the US-headquartered search giant from April 2011 till March 2019 for using Android OS and Google mobile services were also sought from the handset makers. It had also asked whether there were any restrictions on using the company’s mobile apps and services during this period.
The investigation, which began in April, stemmed from a complaint from CCI executives where they said Google mandated smartphone makers to exclusively pre-install its own applications or services in order to get access to any part of Google Mobile Services. This has hindered development and market access of rival mobile applications or services, they alleged.
They alleged also that Google bundled certain apps and services which connect with other Google apps, services or programming interfaces that in turn illegally prevented development and market access of rival apps and services.
They claimed that Google prevented Indian smartphone makers from developing and marketing modified and potentially competing versions of Android on other devices<\/a>.
In its initial response to the regulator, Google India had said handset companies were not needed to enter into agreements with Google since Android was an open source software. However, a mobile applications distribution agreement (MADA) allows handset makers to pre-install Google’s apps if they wanted those to be preloaded, it had said.
The agreement does not prohibit the companies from pre-loading their own apps and since Google app icons took only a little space on the phone’s screen, a far larger area was left for installation or promotion of the handset maker’s own apps or other third-party apps, it had said.
Further, it said users could disable or move any Google app that they did not want on their devices. This, the company said, prevented the app from running on the phone and thus using up the phone’s finite memory.
Google added that the open source platform gave handset makers more freedom than a licence model, but warned that changes to the source code might create incompatibilities, such that Android apps would not function on such non-compatible phone models. Therefore, handset makers must comply with a minimum baseline compatibility standard for Android — called the Compatibility Definition Document — through an Android Compatibility Commitment agreement which was optional in the first place, but agreeing to it was a condition in MADA.
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CCI干事要求统计在印度的智能手机,智能手机和平板电脑销售趋势多年来,操作系统,应用程序在Android上除了互联网数据,从对比研究等研究机构国际数据公司印度(IDC),人们意识到发展。
上个月通知被发送。这些谈论CCI的调查所谓的支配地位滥用的Android操作系统市场,移动应用商店,一般的网络搜索服务,web浏览器应用程序和视频托管平台在线,看到通知的人告诉等。
而IDC印度已发送响应,对比在这样做的过程中,人们说。
研究公司均拒绝置评。
谷歌发言人反驳它滥用市场地位的指控,说:“我们期待与印度竞争委员会合作,展示Android如何导致了更多的竞争和创新,而不是更少。”
这是第二组调查的反垄断监管机构发布的通知。它早前问一些手机厂商给的细节条款和条件的移动应用程序分布,分割,Android兼容与谷歌和其他协议。
细节的执照费或皇室每年支付的该搜索巨头从2011年4月到2019年3月使用Android操作系统和谷歌移动服务也从手机制造商寻求。它还要求是否有任何限制使用该公司的移动应用程序和服务在此期间。
调查始于今年4月,源于一个投诉CCI高管,他们表示,谷歌智能手机制造商授权专门的预自己的应用程序或服务,以获得任何谷歌移动服务的一部分。这阻碍了开发和市场准入的对手移动应用程序或服务,他们被指控。
他们还声称,谷歌捆绑某些应用程序和服务,联系其他谷歌应用程序,服务或编程接口,进而非法阻止发展和竞争对手应用程序和服务的市场准入。
他们声称谷歌阻止印度智能手机制造商开发和营销修改和潜在竞争的其他版本的Android设备。
监管机构的最初反应,谷歌印度表示,手机公司不需要进入协议以来谷歌安卓是一个开源软件。然而,移动应用分销协议(马达)允许手机制造商预装谷歌应用程序的加载如果他们想要这些,它说。
协议不禁止公司预装自己的应用程序,因为谷歌应用程序图标只花了一个小空间在手机的屏幕上,一个更大的区域安装或促进了手机厂商的应用程序或其他第三方应用程序,它说。
此外,它表示用户可以禁用或移动任何Google app,他们不希望在他们的设备上。该公司表示,阻止应用程序运行在手机,因此使用手机有限的内存。
谷歌说,开源平台给手机制造商比许可证模型更多的自由,但他警告称,修改源代码可以创建不兼容,这样Android应用程序不会函数等不相容的手机。因此,手机制造商必须符合最低基准兼容性标准为Android -称为兼容性定义文档通过一个Android兼容承诺协议是可选的,但在马达思班同意这是一个条件。
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