Google will pay Australia $36 million over anticompetitive search deal with mobile carriers
Google has agreed to pay a fine of $55 million AUD ($36 million USD) for anticompetitive practices, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced. It stems from deals Google undertook with Australian telecommunications companies Telstra and Optus to only pre-install Google Search. <br /> The key there is that these companies couldn't install any other search engine. Telstra and Optus then got a share of Google's ad revenue from customers using Google search on their respective Androids. Google admitted these agreements were "likely to have had the effect of substantially lessening competition." These deals were in place from December 2019 to March 2021. <br /> "Conduct that restricts competition is illegal in Australia because it [...]
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