TOKYO — The Japan Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday issued a cease and desist order to Google to halt its monopolistic practice of demanding that manufacturers give preferential treatment to its search services on Android phones.
According to the finding, Google has asked at least six Android phone manufacturers to give such preferential treatment to Google’s search service and browser since July 2020 at the latest, when the makers signed the license agreement for Google’s app store, covering around 80% of Android devices sold in Japan.
