New South Korea law likely to test Apple, Google duopoly: Report

The Telecommunications Business Act would mandate giving users a free choice of app payment providers

South Korea is expected to become the first country to pass a law ending Apple and Google’s domination of payments on their mobile platforms, setting a potentially radical precedent for their app store operations everywhere from India to the US.
 
Apple and Alphabet’s Google, the effective duopoly controlling most of the world’s smartphones, face a raft of legislative measures in the US rebuking their “gatekeeper control” and urging a curb on their power to dictate terms on app marketplaces. Both charge a fee of typically 30 per cent on purchases made on their stores and exclude alternative payment handlers,