Apple and Google face more UK antitrust scrutiny over mobile ecosystems

LONDON: Britain’s competition regulator said it plans to designate Apple and Google with so-called strategic market status for their role in mobile ecosystems, as it steps up scrutiny of what it has described as their duopoly.

The plans announced on Wednesday follows findings by an inquiry group at Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that a number of markets relating to mobile internet browsers were not working well for consumers or businesses.