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Germany: Regulator says Amazon might face restrictions

By  |  March 24, 2019

According to a report From Bloomberg,  Amazon is combining some offerings in a way similar to Google and could face sanctions in order to safeguard competition rules, the chairman of Germany’s Monopolies Commission Achim Wambach told Welt am Sonntag in an interview.

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    “One could think in the direction of an unbundling on a product level at Amazon,” Wambach said. “Amazon Prime connects different services as well,” he said, referring to the company’s membership program. Germany’s Monopolies Commission is an expert panel that advises the country’s federal government.

    Last year, the European Union fined Google €4.3 billion (US$4.86 billion) for breaching antitrust rules as the US giant imposed restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators to cement its dominant position in general internet search.

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