{"id":955830,"date":"2025-08-19T07:19:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955830"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:57:31","slug":"google-to-pay-36-million-fine-for-anticompetitive-deals-with-australias-largest-telcos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/19\/google-to-pay-36-million-fine-for-anticompetitive-deals-with-australias-largest-telcos\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to pay $36 million fine for anticompetitive deals with Australia&#8217;s largest telcos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has agreed to pay a 55 million Australian dollar ($36 million) fine for signing anticompetitive deals with Australia&#8217;s two largest telcos that banned the installation of competing search engines on some smartphones, the US tech giant and Australia&#8217;s competition watchdog said. <\/p>\n<p>The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in a statement it had commenced proceedings in the Australian Federal Court on Monday against the Singapore-based Google Asia Pacific division. The court will decide whether the AU$50 million ($36 million) penalty is appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has agreed to pay a 55 million Australian dollar ($36 million) fine for signing anticompetitive deals with Australia&#8217;s two largest telcos that banned the installation of competing search engines on some smartphones, the US tech giant and Australia&#8217;s competition watchdog said. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in a statement it had commenced proceedings in the Australian Federal Court on Monday against the Singapore-based Google Asia Pacific division. The court will decide whether the AU$50 million ($36 million) penalty is appropriate.<\/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-955830","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\/955830","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=955830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}