"Given the important role Google's mobile platform plays as an essential gateway for UK mobile users accessing digital content and services, and for UK businesses developing and distributing digital content and services for mobile, it is imperative that these groups are treated fairly and have trust and confidence in their ability to use it,"
"By designating Google with SMS in relation to its mobile platform, the CMA said it can now consider whether it is necessary and appropriate to introduce proportionate, targeted interventions to ensure that UK app developers and innovators developing and distributing content via Google's mobile platform are able to innovate and grow their businesses."
"Following the CMA's decision, our mobile business in the UK faces a set of new - and, as of yet, uncertain - rules. The CMA's next steps will be crucial if the UK's digital markets regime is to meet its promise of being pro-growth and pro-innovation"
The Competition and Markets Authority designated Google's mobile platform as strategic market status after a nine-month investigation, finding Google's market power entrenched and Apple a limited competitive constraint. Google's UK business is estimated between $10bn and $20bn annually. The CMA will scrutinise the openness of the mobile platform and can consider proportionate, targeted interventions to ensure UK app developers and innovators can develop, distribute, innovate, and grow. The CMA emphasised fair treatment and trust for users and businesses using the gateway. Google warned the decision creates new and uncertain rules and stressed the importance of pro-growth, pro-innovation regulation.
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