The largest Russian Internet company asked the Federal Antimonopoly Service to check the US IT-giant of a violation of antitrust laws. Russian search engine is concerned that his rival prohibits pre-install applications and services of other Internet companies on Android. This operating system developed Google, operates the majority of mobile devices in the world. Access to key platform components, in particular – to the app store Google Play, manufacturers can only get on the conditions of the IT-giant – told us the director of public relations “Yandex” Ochir Mandzhikov.
According to the ” Yandex “in the past year, Google has banned preset all services of the Russian search engine on mobile devices Fly, Explay and Prestigio. In the area of risk and other major developers, services that compete with products giant. In the end, the interests of users are affected, said “Yandex”. Complaint of FAS has already received. Office promises to consider her for a month, but so far can not say that Google violated anything, said “Echo” Head of Information Technology Vladimir Kudryavtsev. In the Russian office of Google said the Russian service of BBC, that the text has not yet seen the complaint, but noted that users of Android devices themselves can choose what services and applications to use.
It should be noted that the activities of Google is not criticism Only by “Yandex” and not only in Russia. In 2013, the European Commission initiated a similar investigation of a complaint alliance Fair Search. Last summer, as a witness in this case was brought, and Russian search engine.
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