Before the High Court, ADIF has argued that Google is attempting to bypass the CCI direction by introducing a policy called ‘User Choice Billing’ (UCB) which will come into effect from April 26.
The petitioners contend that the UCB is a cloaked version of the GPBS, which projects the hoax of giving liberty to app developers to opt for third-party payment processors. But, even when a user uses such third-party payment processors, Google will be charging service fee at 11-26% from the developers, the plea stated.
ADIF has informed the High Court that it filed several applications before the CCI against Google’s non-compliance, but the Commission is yet to take any action owing to lack of quorum. As a result of this, the market remains vulnerable to abuse of dominant position by Google.
Google is taking advantage of the lack of quorum of the CCI and are engaging in anti-competitive conducts which will cause irreversible harm to the members of the petitioner and other app developers in the market and cause distortion in the market, the plea stated.
Source: Barandbench
