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EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager (Margrethe Vestager) is expected to announce on Wednesday that Google has abused a dominant position in the market by entering into agreements with smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung and Huawei
. the fine will rise to "several billion". The EU rules state that Google can be punished with a fine of up to 10%. The annual business number of Alphabet reached 110.9 billion.
"The size of the penalty depends not only on the duration of the infringements, but also on the belief of the competition authorities that the company has intentionally violated the rules and deliberately eliminated its competitors," said another source close to the situation. In the Android case, the European Commission (EC) accuses Google of having this Samsung, Huawei, and the United States, and other smartphone manufacturers have demanded that they install their search engine Google on their devices, the Google Chrome web browser and the default Google search engine. In exchange for that, the phone makers were allowed for some Google Gadgets.
For this reason, Google Search and Chrome are pre-installed in most devices sold in the EU, says the Commission
In a complaint formally In April, Google is also accused of preventing manufacturers selling smartphones with competing operating systems that are created under open source Android code.
Fear that the Google file will further increase the trade tension between
Tuesday, it was also announced that the EC President, Jean Claude Juncker, will travel to the United States for trade negotiations with the US President Donald Trump next week.
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