India Fines Google 115 Million Euros and Forces It to Allow Third-Party Payment Gateways in Android Apps

That Google is a company that long ago left behind its old motto of “Don’t Be Evil” is something that everyone already knows. The search engine giant has repeatedly used its monopoly and dominant position in various markets such as search, online advertising and also because of the control it has over the Play Store, the app store, of its Android operating system. In fact, two of us would go on forever if we start counting all the fines and sanctions that the company has received in recent years.

Numerous authorities in countries around the world have imposed millions in fines on the company for its practices, and now it’s indian who has done the same, imposing a fine of about 115 million Euros to Google for abusing its dominant position to drive other payment systems out of the market in the Play Store and thus be able to charge commissions to developers.

India is the country with the most Android users in the world, where the Android operating system Google has a 97% shareso Google has abused its position of absolute dominance in the country.

The country’s antitrust authorities, in addition to imposing the finehave forced the company to allow application developers to use the payment platforms they want. Until now, Google requires the use of its own payment gateway, where it is used to charge a commission for each acquisition, reaching a situation that, according to the country’s legislation, violates its laws.

In addition, they point out that Google itself does not use this system in its own applications such as YouTube, which are free of fees, so that, in addition, it is a discrimination against other developers.

For example, here in Spain we can see that services like Telegram premium are much more expensive if they are contracted from the Android application, than if they are contracted from the Telegram website itself, due to the fees imposed by Google.

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