{"id":934554,"date":"2025-05-28T15:41:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T10:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=934554"},"modified":"2025-05-29T06:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T01:16:20","slug":"android-smartphone-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/28\/android-smartphone-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Smartphone Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 15, 2025, Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) issued a formal cease-and-desist order to Google LLC, marking a significant regulatory intervention under Japan\u2019s Antimonopoly Act. The Commission found that Google had been engaging in conduct falling under \u201cTrading on Restrictive Terms\u201d, as defined in paragraph (12) of the Unfair Trade Practices provision. <\/p>\n<p>The case, which stemmed from an investigation that began on October 23, 2023 and included cooperation with overseas antitrust authorities, concluded that Google\u2019s contractual arrangements with Android smartphone manufacturers and mobile network operators (MNOs) unfairly restricted competition in the market for general search<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 15, 2025, Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) issued a formal cease-and-desist order to Google LLC, marking a significant regulatory intervention under Japan\u2019s Antimonopoly Act. The Commission found that Google had been engaging in conduct falling under \u201cTrading on Restrictive Terms\u201d, as defined in paragraph (12) of the Unfair Trade Practices provision. The case, which stemmed from an investigation that began on October 23, 2023 and included cooperation with overseas antitrust authorities, concluded that Google\u2019s contractual arrangements with Android smartphone manufacturers and mobile network operators (MNOs) unfairly restricted competition in the market for general search<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":934555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazinenews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934554","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=934554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}