Google has warned that the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) directions in the two rulings will lead to more expensive smartphones in the country.

In an extensive blogpost, the tech giant has said that the CCI’s directions will lead to “different and unique” versions of its patent Android<\/a> operating system for mobile phones.

These versions of Android, called “forks” would prevent Google from securing the devices<\/a> as they will not support the “security and user safety” features that the company provides.

“Since incompatible Android forks will not support the security and user safety features that Google provides, security responsibilities for these devices will instead fall to the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), who will need to invest extensively in creating consistent, all-year-round security upgrades themselves,” the company said in a blogpost.

This, in turn, will force OEMs to raise the prices for smartphones in the country, the company said.

The company is facing two adverse orders by the CCI, passed on October 20 and October 25 last year.

In both the orders, apart from levying penalties of Rs 1,337 crore and Rs 936 crore<\/a>, respectively, the competition regulator had also asked Google to implement a series of policy changes to prevent abuse of dominant position in the Android market and Play Store<\/a>.

For example, in the first order passed on October 20, the CCI had laid down about a dozen measures<\/a> requiring the American company to provide fair access to all stakeholders.

The competition regulator had, while ruling that device makers should not have to –pre-install other services offered by Google, also said that licensing of the Play Store to OEMs will not be linked with the requirement of pre-installing Google search services, the Chrome browser, YouTube and other bouquet of Google applications.

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CCI's directives on Android that have spooked Google<\/a><\/h2>

As a Jan. 19 deadline approaches, the U.S. firm has asked the Supreme Court to put on hold the directives of the Competition Commission of India (CCI), arguing that they risk stalling growth of its Android ecosystem in the country.<\/p><\/div>