Turkey: Official Statement on Android Decision

On 09.02.2017, Turkish Competition Board (Board) initiated an investigation to determine whether the economic entity composed of Google Inc, Google International LLC and Google Reklamcılık ve Pazarlama Ltd. Şti. (Google) has abused its dominance via the restrictions it imposed on mobile device manufacturers while licensing its Android Operating System.

In this scope, basically, the investigation focused on whether Google has leveraged the monopoly-level market power it had in mobile operating systems market to maintain or strengthen its dominance in other markets, especially the general internet search services market.

As a result of the investigation, it was found that by using the licensing conditions imposed on mobile device manufacturers, Google made it significantly harder for its rivals to get pre-installed on mobile devices and also has provided financial incentives to manufacturers in return of being the sole internet search services provider in selected devices.

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