Turkey to Investigate Antitrust Complaint Against Google -

Turkey to Investigate Antitrust Complaint Against Google -
By MARK SCOTTMARCH 6, 2017
Google faced another regulatory challenge on Monday when the authorities in Turkey opened an investigation
into whether the search giant’s popular Android software had broken the country’s antitrust rules.
The regulator, the Turkish Competition Authority, had initially declined to investigate Yandex’s complaint, but it said on Monday
that it would look at whether Google’s use of Android to promote its other digital services infringed on the country’s competition rules.
The inquiry mirrors one by the European authorities in which Google was charged last year with
abusing its dominant position with Android to benefit its other services over those of rivals.
Yandex has charged that makers of cellphones are obliged to use Google’s services if they want to use the latest version of Android, but
that such obligations are unfair because they create an uneven playing field.
The new Turkish investigation relates to how Google provides some of its digital services as part of a package of software related to Android, the mobile operating system
that powers more than 75 percent of the smartphones worldwide.