Apple-Google Mobile ‘Duopoly’ Faces U.K. Antitrust Scrutiny
- CMA opens 12-month market study into firms’ mobile ecosystems
- U.K. regulator has made tech competition a key focus
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Google and Apple Inc. face a sweeping probe into the “duopoly” power of their mobile ecosystems, in the U.K. antitrust watchdog’s latest attack on Silicon Valley.
The increasingly tech-focused Competition and Markets Authority opened a 12-month market study into broad aspects of the iOS and Android systems, saying it feared the companies’ dominance is stifling competition. The investigation adds to the regulator’s separate investigations into both tech giants.