{"id":874367,"date":"2024-11-07T10:38:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T05:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=874367"},"modified":"2024-11-07T10:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T05:08:34","slug":"smartphone-glass-maker-corning-faces-eu-anti-competition-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/07\/smartphone-glass-maker-corning-faces-eu-anti-competition-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone glass maker Corning faces EU anti-competition investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>he European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into US glass maker Corning over concerns that its exclusive supply agreements with mobile phone manufacturers may have illegally excluded competitors from the market for break-resistant screen glass.<br \/>\nThe probe will examine whether Corning, which produces the widely-used Gorilla Glass brand of protective smartphone screens, abused its dominant market position through anti-competitive practices with both phone makers and raw glass processing companies.<br \/>\nEU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said the investigation aims to determine if Corning&#8217;s practices have &#8220;deprived consumers from cheaper and more break-resistant glass&#8221; options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into US glass maker Corning over concerns that its exclusive supply agreements with mobile phone manufacturers may have illegally excluded competitors from the market for break-resistant screen glass. The probe will examine whether Corning, which produces the widely-used Gorilla Glass brand of protective smartphone screens, abused its dominant market position through anti-competitive practices with both phone makers and raw glass processing companies. EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said the investigation aims to determine if Corning&#8217;s practices have &#8220;deprived consumers from cheaper and more break-resistant glass&#8221; options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874367","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}