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EU: Google confirms six-week extension in Android antitrust case

By  |  July 13, 2016

The decision gives the company until September 7 to counter the European Commission’s argument that restrictions placed on the Android operating system were harming competition.

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    The EU had previously given Google until July 27 to respond to the charges. The company could be fined up to ten per cent of its global turnover, a figure in the region of $7.4 billion (£5.6bn). The Commission’s main complain is that phone manufacturers are required to pre-install certain Google services in order to get access to the Play store.

    Speaking to WIRED last month, Hiroshi Lockheimer, senior vice president of Google’s Android, Chrome OS and Play store business, compared the restrictions on how Android operates to the standardisation of railway gauges.

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