{"id":1018540,"date":"2026-07-03T07:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018540"},"modified":"2026-07-03T07:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:18:24","slug":"google-loses-fight-against-record-e4-1-billion-eu-antitrust-fine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/03\/google-loses-fight-against-record-e4-1-billion-eu-antitrust-fine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Google loses fight against record \u20ac4.1 billion EU antitrust fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: Alphabet&#8217;s Google on Thursday lost its fight against a record fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators eight years ago for using its Android mobile operating system to block rivals, a court ruling likely to boost Europe&#8217;s crackdown on Big Tech. <\/p>\n<p>The European Commission had originally handed out \u200ca \u20ac4.34 billion \u2060fine to \u2060Google in 2018 for its agreements which forced phone manufacturers to pre-install Google Search, the Chrome browser and the Google Play app store on their Android devices and prevented them from using rival Android systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: Alphabet&#8217;s Google on Thursday lost its fight against a record fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators eight years ago for using its Android mobile operating system to block rivals, a court ruling likely to boost Europe&#8217;s crackdown on Big Tech. The European Commission had originally handed out \u200ca \u20ac4.34 billion \u2060fine to \u2060Google in 2018 for its agreements which forced phone manufacturers to pre-install Google Search, the Chrome browser and the Google Play app store on their Android devices and prevented them from using rival Android systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018556,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018540\/revisions\/1018556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}