(Reuters) - The European Union antitrust boss, who has officially charged Google (GOOGL.O) with favoring its own particular shopping administration in web seeks, said on Monday that she was presently looking at its arrangements with telephone producers and administrators.
The remarks by European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager take after a year-long examination concerning Android, the world's most well known working framework for cell phones, activated by two objections.
A choice on the shopping administration could come for this present year. Like the Android case, it could prompt a fine of up to $7.4 billion or 10 percent of Google's 2015 income, and drive it to change its business hones.
Vestager said enormous organizations ought not attempt to secure themselves by keeping down development.
"That is the reason we're taking a gander at Google's agreements with telephone creators and administrators which utilize the Android working framework," she said at a meeting sorted out by the Dutch rivalry power.
"Our worry is that, by requiring telephone creators and administrators to pre-load an arrangement of Google applications, as opposed to giving them a chance to choose for themselves which applications to load, Google may have cut off one of the principle ways that new applications can achieve clients."
The Commission said a year ago that it was additionally exploring whether Google had kept cell phone and tablet makers from creating and promoting altered and possibly contending renditions of Android.
Another zone of concern was whether Google had illicitly blocked the advancement and business sector access of adversary applications and administrations by packaging some of its applications and administrations appropriated on Android gadgets with other Google items.
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