They sue Google for violating antitrust law in Europe

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The technology giant Google, which before the customer acquires the phone, asked that smartphone manufacturers added 11 of their applications in the initial package, faces a millionaire demand and great difficulty for abusing their position in the market by imposing limitations to the manufacturers of Android devices and mobile network operators, according to the European Union. Google's Android is the most dominant operating system worldwide. Applications must be available at a minimum when swiping the screen from the homepage of the mobile and users cannot delete these ‘apps’.

For a year now, if the US giant infringes the European competition rules, the Commission closely monitors Google's operating system to determine it. The sources suggest that the suspicions were already confirmed by what Google would face a probable punishment of Brussels: a fine of up to 10% of the annual turnover of the group.

Google is a company specialized in products and services related to Internet, software, electronic devices and other technologies. A company is the main subsidiary of the American multinational Alphabet Inc ..

Android is an operating system based on the Linux kernel.

In that condition of "take it or leave it" Google illegally abused its dominance in the marking, says Europe. Android is particularly po[CENSORED]r in that continent with about 80% of the smartphone and tablet market, according to the European Commission.

Margrethe Vestager, Commissioner for Competition of the European Commission mentioned: “Based on our research so far, we believe that Google's behavior rejects consumers a more extensive choice of applications and services and is in the path of other innovation actors, violating the antitrust rules of the European Union ”.

Vestager said Monday that research on Google was necessary to ensure that "large companies do not try to take care of themselves in a way that slows innovation." Brussels is disturbed by the event that the US company has avoided the development of systems that would make the competition to Android and that Google has necessarily linked some of its applications and services, thus harming others.If it violates those rules, at the level of Union exactly there is a recent fact: the one of the hardening of the norms to guarantee that right to the forgetfulness and the establishment of fines of up to 4% of the global turnover of a company.

The Commission believes that Google has broken the law by:

1. Ask manufacturers to pre-install the Google browser and browser and make Google Search the default search service.

This was informed by the European commissioner Marghrete Vestager on Wednesday, that if the US giant promoted anti-competitive agreements with manufacturers of smart mobile phones and tablets to incorporate a series of applications that are pre-installed by default, it revealed the preliminary findings of the investigation to determine. The institution has already sent the "file of charges" to Google and Alphabet, the parent company, in the opinion that it restricts competition and innovation.

2. Avoid manufacturers selling smartphones that work with competing operating systems based on open source Android.

3. Provide financial incentives to manufacturers and telephone operators under the condition that they exclusively install Google Search in their devices.

Kent Walker replied to the European Commission that the company could "prove that Android is good for competition and good for consumers." Kent Walker is the general counsel of Google.

Preinstall applications such as Google Search, YouTube, Gmail and Google Maps play an important role in attracting traffic money and ads to Google.

Google has revealed little about its entries on Android, but the company said the mobile phone is a substantial part of its earnings - more than half, according to eMarketer.

The European Union could fine Google with more than 10% of the company's global annual sales, which represents a fine of $ 7 billion.