Explained | Why Google was fined 2.2K crore in a week

Days after it was fined Rs 1337.76 crore for related reasons, Google was slapped with a Rs 936.44 crore fine on Tuesday by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for anti-competitive practices related to the Android ecosystem.

Google is no stranger to such penalties, having been fined by the European Union (EU) for similar reasons earlier.

According to Counterpoint Research, Android accounts for 97 per cent of the 600 million smartphones in India, making it Google’s biggest market by users.

What anti-competitive practices has Google been fined for?

The CCI had fined Google Rs 1,337.76 crore a week ago for abusing its dominant market position in the Android ecosystem, based on an investigation that the watchdog had started three-and-half years ago.