{"id":1046771,"date":"2026-11-04T07:29:57","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T01:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046771"},"modified":"2026-11-04T07:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:15:30","slug":"sc-to-decide-forum-for-google-billing-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/04\/sc-to-decide-forum-for-google-billing-disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"SC to decide forum for Google billing disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it will examine whether a civil court or the Competition Commission of India (CCI) can hear petitions by application developers challenging Google India&#8217;s Google Play Billing System and User Choice Billing, which mandate service fees ranging from 15-30% from the developers. <\/p>\n<p>Questioning the app developers on whether their contracts with Google allowed them to opt out of its payment system and engage other payment service providers, a bench comprising Justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe said that the commission, being a market regulator,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it will examine whether a civil court or the Competition Commission of India (CCI) can hear petitions by application developers challenging Google India&#8217;s Google Play Billing System and User Choice Billing, which mandate service fees ranging from 15-30% from the developers. Questioning the app developers on whether their contracts with Google allowed them to opt out of its payment system and engage other payment service providers, a bench comprising Justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe said that the commission, being a market regulator,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1046771","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\/1046771","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046792,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046771\/revisions\/1046792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}