Last Updated: February 24, 2023, 15:50 IST
ADIF has urged Competition Commission of India (CCI), to look into the matter and be sure that Google complies with the particular directives.
The Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF) on Thursday mentioned Google is blatantly disobeying CCI orders and charging app builders an exorbitant 1126 per cent fee even when they go for different billing system.
The Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF) on Thursday mentioned Google is blatantly disobeying CCI orders and charging app builders an exorbitant 11-26 per cent fee even when they go for different billing system.
ADIF, the coverage suppose tank specializing in Indian digital startups, has urged the authorities, together with the Competition Commission of India (CCI), to look into the matter and be sure that Google complies with the particular directives of the competitors fee “in letter and in spirit”.
“Google has recently changed its billing requirement for app developers wherein it has mentioned that if a user pays through an alternate billing system, the Google plays service fee will be reduced by 4 per cent… Therefore, despite not using any service from Google, app developers will be forced to pay commissions to Google,” ADIF mentioned in a press release.
ADIF mentioned that in doing so Google is blatantly disobeying CCI orders.
“This is nothing but another blatant attempt by Google to evade its obligation under the law and while Google claims that these changes are ostensibly in response to the regulatory development, the said change is in gross violation of the remedies mentioned in the CCI order,” ADIF mentioned.
Google’s transfer is a “clear violation” of a selected route of the CCI that the corporate shall not impose any situation (together with worth associated situation) on app builders, which is unfair, unreasonable, discriminatory, or disproportionate to the providers supplied to the app builders.
“Further, there is absolutely no transparency as to why Google will charge 11-26 per cent even when the user avails of a third-party processing service. This becomes all the more problematic considering that most of the transactions carried out in the app digital ecosystem do not use GPBS (Google Play Billing System),” it mentioned.
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