The Competition & Commercial Law Review

[Avanti Deshpande is a fourth-year student at ILS, Pune] Introduction Digital economies have upended traditional economic models and the conventional understanding of competition law. Technology and digitization promise pro-competitive benefits such as increased efficiency and better consumer welfare, however, it also has insidious ways of fostering anti-competitive behaviour. The advent of disruptive innovators alongside the development of pricing algorithms has given rise t

Pursuant to an anonymous complaint, the CCI initiated a probe to monitor the abuse of dominance by Google over multiple facets including an allegation to prefer its product over others. The main allegation revolves around mandatory use of Google Play’s payment system for paid apps and in-app purchases and excluding other mobile wallets/UPI apps for such payments. Further, it has been alleged to generate profit by pre-installing Google Pay in devices. However, it is not the fi