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Reliance Jio-Facebook申请CCI批准

信实工业旗下的Jio平台和社交媒体巨头Facebook已向竞争监管机构CCI提交了申请,称这笔57亿美元的交易“有利于竞争,有利于消费者、基拉那商店和其他印度本地小型和微型企业,并推进了数字印度的愿景。”

班加罗尔:信实工业公司该公司旗下的Jio平台和社交媒体巨头脸谱网已经提交申请了吗竞争监督机构CCI他指出,这笔57亿美元的交易“有利于竞争,有利于消费者、基拉纳商店和其他印度当地小型和微型企业,并推动了数字印度的愿景。”

这款应用程序是在Facebook宣布收购腾讯9.99%的股份之后推出的Jio平台该公司拥有印度最大的电信公司数字服务今年4月。

作为交易的一部分,facebook拥有的消息应用程序WhatsApp与信实工业(Reliance Industries)的零售部门也达成了一项商业服务协议。WhatsApp在印度有超过4亿活跃用户,而Jio有3.7亿电信用户。

两家公司在文件中表示CCI“在这种情况下不需要定义任何相关市场”,正在考虑的两个市场是消费者通信应用程序和广告服务。根据申请,“这两个极具活力的领域都没有明显的水平重叠,其特点是进入壁垒低,进入和转换容易,竞争对手众多。”


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BENGALURU: Reliance Industries<\/a>' owned Jio Platform and social media giant Facebook<\/a> have filed their application with competition watchdog CCI<\/a> citing that the $5.7 billion deal is \"pro-competitive, benefits consumers, Kirana stores and other small and micro local Indian businesses, and take forward the vision of digital India.\"

The application comes after Facebook announced that it is picking up a 9.99% stake in
Jio Platforms<\/a>, which owns India's largest telco besides a slew of digital services<\/a>, in April.

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As a part of the deal, Facebook-owned messaging application
WhatsApp<\/a> and Reliance Industries' retail unit have also entered an agreement for commerce services. While WhatsApp has over 400 million active users in India, Jio has 370 million telecom subscribers.

The companies said in the filing that
CCI<\/a> \"need not define any relevant markets in this case\" and two markets under consideration are consumer communication applications and advertising services. \"There is no significant horizontal overlap in either of these extremely dynamic segments, characterized by low entry barriers, ease of entry and switching, and a large number of competitors,\" according to the application.