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Europe Receives Complaint About Google's Android

BRUSSELS — European antitrust regulators have received a formal complaint about Google's Android operating system for mobile devices, even as they move to the final stages of their inquiry into the company's search practices.

New York Times James Kanter

Context & Ripple Effects

Google had already framed Microsoft and Nokia as antitrust targets in a 2012 dispute over mobile competition. European regulators are also nearing the end of a separate inquiry into Google’s search practices.

The Android complaint puts Google’s mobile operating system alongside search in the European antitrust conversation, widening the company’s immediate regulatory exposure without establishing the complaint’s merits.

First-order effects

  • European antitrust regulators must assess a formal Android complaint while closing out their search-practices inquiry, increasing the number of Google businesses under scrutiny.
  • Google must address a new regulatory challenge centered on Android in addition to its ongoing search case.

Second-order effects

  • Companies seeking to challenge Google in mobile gain a formal European channel to press their concerns, rather than relying solely on public competition claims.
  • Google’s Android partners face added uncertainty around the operating system’s commercial arrangements if the complaint advances into a regulatory inquiry.

Third-order effects

  • The complaint signals a broader shift from examining Google’s conduct in search to examining whether control of a mobile platform can create similar competition concerns.
  • If regulators treat platform distribution as an antitrust issue, large technology firms will face greater pressure to separate operating-system access from the services built on top of it.

The trend: European competition scrutiny is expanding from individual online services toward the leverage created by major technology platforms.

Related: Android · Google · Google points to Microsoft and Nokia in antitrust dispute

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