Google has admitted liability and agreed to a US$36 million penalty over its anticompetitive agreements, Australia’s regulator says
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said Google Asia-Pacific reached “understandings” with Telstra and Optus between December 2019 and March 2021 to pre-install only Google Search on Android phones they sold.
“In return, Telstra and Optus received a share of the revenue Google generated from ads displayed to consumers when they used Google Search on their Android phones,” the ACCC said in a statement.
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