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Alphabet’s Google was taken to court by Australia’s regulator on Monday over the company’s “anti-competitive” Google Search deals with telecom operators Telstra and Singapore Telecommunications-owned Optus.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said Google Asia Pacific reached “understandings” with Telstra and Optus between December 2019 and March 2021 to pre-install only Google Search on Android phones they sold.
“In return, Telstra and Optus received a share of the revenue Google generated from ads displayed to consumers when…
