FairSearch, a consortium made up of Google competitors including Oracle, Microsoft and Nokia, has filed an antitrust suit in the European Union against Google over its Android smartphone platform.
A statement on the group’s website accuses Google of “deceptive conduct to lockout competition in mobile”.
The group also claims Google’s support of Android is an “anti-competitive strategy to dominate the mobile marketplace and cement its control over consumer internet data for online advertising as usage shifts to mobile.”
Citing Android’s strong position in the smartphone market and mobile search advertising, the lobby group accuses Google of requiring handset vendors, including Samsung and HTC, to pre-install other services, such as Google Maps or YouTube.
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Andrew Sadauskas is a former journalist at SmartCompany and a former editor of TechCompany.
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