{"id":201834,"date":"2017-03-08T07:53:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T05:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=201834"},"modified":"2017-03-08T07:55:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T05:55:34","slug":"android-is-anticompetitive-open-internet-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/201834-android-is-anticompetitive-open-internet-project.html","title":{"rendered":"Android is anticompetitive &#8211; Open Internet Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Open Internet Project (OIP) has\u00a0accused Google of imposing anticompetitive restrictions\u00a0on Android smartphone makers, reported\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-eu-google-antitrust-idUSKBN16E1VE\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Reuters<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The OIP said Google is once again in breach of EU antitrust rules and has\u00a0abused its dominant position\u00a0to preserve and strengthen its dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Google said that Android improves competition, the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second antitrust complaint the OIP has lodged with the European Commission, which said it would investigate the concerns raised.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/114815-eu-calling-for-google-to-be-broken-up.html\">EU calling for Google to be broken up<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Open Internet Project has accused Google of imposing anticompetitive restrictions on Android smartphone makers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":158089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[397,167,41816],"class_list":["post-201834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-google","tag-open-internet-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201920,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201834\/revisions\/201920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}