{"id":956094,"date":"2025-08-19T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956094"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:17:05","slug":"google-fined-36-million-in-australia-admits-to-deals-that-substantially-impacted-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/19\/google-fined-36-million-in-australia-admits-to-deals-that-substantially-impacted-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Google fined $36 million in Australia, admits to deals that \u2018substantially\u2019 impacted competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has agreed to pay a fine of $35.8 million in Australia amidst anti-competitive allegations, reports Reuters. The tech giant, as per the report, was accused by Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) of paying the country&#8217;s two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android smartphones, excluding rival search engines. Admitting that the arrangement \u201chad a substantial impact on competition\u201d, Google agreed to pay a 55 million Australian dollar ($36 million) fine as stated above.<\/p>\n<p>The Reuters report quotes ACCC Chair Gina-Cass Gottlieb who said \u201cToday&#8217;s outcome &#8230; created the potential for millions of Australians to have greater search choice in the future, and for competing search providers to gain meaningful exposure to Australian consumers\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has agreed to pay a fine of $35.8 million in Australia amidst anti-competitive allegations, reports Reuters. The tech giant, as per the report, was accused by Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) of paying the country&#8217;s two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android smartphones, excluding rival search engines. Admitting that the arrangement \u201chad a substantial impact on competition\u201d, Google agreed to pay a 55 million Australian dollar ($36 million) fine as stated above. The Reuters report quotes ACCC Chair Gina-Cass Gottlieb who said \u201cToday&#8217;s outcome &#8230; created the potential for millions of Australians to have greater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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-956094","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\/956094","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}