{"id":955546,"date":"2025-08-18T07:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955546"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:14:19","slug":"australian-regulator-sues-google-over-anti-competitive-search-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/18\/australian-regulator-sues-google-over-anti-competitive-search-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian regulator sues Google over anti-competitive Search deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alphabet’s Google was taken to court by Australia’s regulator on Monday over the company’s “anti-competitive” Google Search deals with telecom operators Telstra and Singapore Telecommunications-owned Optus. <\/p>\n

Alphabet’s Google was taken to court by Australia’s regulator on Monday over the company’s “anti-competitive” Google Search deals with telecom operators Telstra and Singapore Telecommunications-owned Optus. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said Google Asia Pacific reached “understandings” with Telstra and Optus between December 2019 and March 2021 to pre-install only Google Search on Android phones they sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alphabet’s Google was taken to court by Australia’s regulator on Monday over the company’s “anti-competitive” Google Search deals with telecom operators Telstra and Singapore Telecommunications-owned Optus. Alphabet’s Google was taken to court by Australia’s regulator on Monday over the company’s “anti-competitive” Google Search deals with telecom operators Telstra and Singapore Telecommunications-owned Optus. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said Google Asia Pacific reached “understandings” with Telstra and Optus between December 2019 and March 2021 to pre-install only Google Search on Android phones they sold.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955546","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=955546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}