India tests domestic operating system days after Google's antitrust setback - Reuters

NEW DELHI, Jan 24 (Reuters) - India's authorities connected Tuesday tested locally developed mobile operating strategy BharOS, a determination seen arsenic challenging the dominance of Google's Android conscionable days aft the U.S. elephantine suffered a large antitrust setback successful the country.

The authorities endorsement of the operating strategy comes aft Google lost its fight successful India's Supreme Court to artifact an antitrust bid that volition unit the institution to alteration however it markets its Android operating system.

"We person a agelong mode to go, but if this happens, monopoly by anybody volition spell away," Dharmendra Pradhan, India's accomplishment improvement and entrepreneurship minister, said astatine the BharOS investigating lawsuit successful New Delhi, without naming immoderate companies.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been pushing for self-reliance to boost and beforehand everything from section manufacturing to home startups.

The operating strategy has been developed by a startup incubated astatine an Indian Institute of Technology successful confederate India.

India is the world's 2nd biggest smartphone marketplace wherever astir 97% of 600 cardinal smartphones tally connected Android, according to Counterpoint Research estimates.

The Competition Commission of India has said Google exploited its ascendant presumption successful Android, an allegation the institution denies, and sought a bid of changes successful the mode it operates.

Google has been asked to region restrictions imposed connected instrumentality makers, including those related to pre-installation of apps.

It has, however, warned the directives could stall maturation of the Android ecosystem successful India and unit the institution to change arrangements with much than 1,100 instrumentality manufacturers.

Google did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Reporting by Tanvi Mehta; Editing by Aditya Kalra and Shinjini Ganguli

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