{"id":969267,"date":"2025-10-24T10:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969267"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:15:36","slug":"google-and-apple-face-extra-uk-scrutiny-over-strategic-role-in-mobile-platforms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/24\/google-and-apple-face-extra-uk-scrutiny-over-strategic-role-in-mobile-platforms-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Google and Apple face extra UK scrutiny over strategic role in mobile platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Britain\u2019s antitrust watchdog on Wednesday targeted Google and Apple for their \u201cstrategic\u201d roles in mobile ecosystems, opening the door for regulators to impose changes to their business practices to improve competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Competition and Markets Authority escalated scrutiny of the two U.S. tech companies by labeling them with \u201cstrategic market status.\u201d It follows separate investigations that the CMA opened at the start of the year into Google\u2019s Android and Apple\u2019s iOS using newly acquired digital market regulations designed to protect consumers and businesses from unfair practices by Big Tech companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Britain\u2019s antitrust watchdog on Wednesday targeted Google and Apple for their \u201cstrategic\u201d roles in mobile ecosystems, opening the door for regulators to impose changes to their business practices to improve competition. The Competition and Markets Authority escalated scrutiny of the two U.S. tech companies by labeling them with \u201cstrategic market status.\u201d It follows separate investigations that the CMA opened at the start of the year into Google\u2019s Android and Apple\u2019s iOS using newly acquired digital market regulations designed to protect consumers and businesses from unfair practices by Big Tech companies.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969267","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=969267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}