On Monday, Google agreed to pay $ 50 million Australian or $ 35.8 million to the country’s consumer watchdog. The search giant had to pay the fine after it was found that its agreement with the two largest telecommunications operations in Australia to install Google application on Android phones in advance and excluded the competitive search engines, injured in the market. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said it began in the Australian Federal Court with the Asia -Pacific division on Monday. The court will now decide whether or not the $ 50 million fine is appropriate. Why was Google fined in Australia? Under Google’s competitive agreements, Telstra and Optus only pre-installed on Google search on Android phones sold for 15 months to 15 months to 15 months to March 2021. The telecom operators excluded other search engines and received part of the advertising revenue generated from clients. Telstra and Optus and their rival TPG agreed last year to enforce businesses with the commission that said they would not renew with Google or do with Google to limit the search options for customers. Meanwhile, Google has assumed that the agreements with telecommunications operators probably led to a significant reduction in competition, the commission said in the release. Meanwhile, the technical giant has also signed a business with the commission, similar to the telecommunications operators. Google has also committed to removing certain pre -installations and standard restrictions of the search engine from its contracts with Android telephone manufacturers and telecos. ACCC chairman Gina-Cass Gottlieb in a release over the fine said: ‘Behavior that limits competition is illegal in Australia, because it usually means less choice, higher cost or worse service for consumers,’ said CCCC chairman Gina-Cass Gottlieb. “It is important that these changes come to a time when AI search instruments make a revolution on how we are looking for information and create new competition,” Gottlieb added.
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