Right to choose

Competition Commission should look at EU's fine on Google

Last week, the European Commission (EC) fined Google a record €4.3 billion for abusing its dominance in search by illegally tying together its search facilities and other mobile apps with the Android mobile operating system. Google has been given 90 days to change these business practices. The tech giant says it will appeal the decision. This follows another fine of $4.2 billion the EC levied in 2017 for giving preference to Google’s own comparison shopping services in its search results. These antitrust actions are designed to ease access to the Android mobile operation software (OS) for independent developers, who may