Google was hit several months ago for the largest fine received by a company in a monopoly case worth about 5 billion US dollars imposed by the European Union on charges of monopoly and damage to competition through the Android operating system.
Google at the time denounced this huge fine and warned that the Android system may not remain free forever, but the direct response to it was on October 16, when the American company giant modified the terms of licenses for the use of some applications in the European Union and confirmed that it will impose fees Financial companies on smart phone manufacturers in exchange for allowing them to use their package of major applications including the Play Store, but did not disclose the value of these fees.
A new report published by The Verg said today that Google will impose a fee on smart phone manufacturers worth about US $ 40 for every Android phone is sold within the European Union.
According to the report, these fees vary the calculation of the density of pixels in the smartphone screen, and will be as follows:
- $ 40 for each smart phone with a pixel density of more than 500 pixels per inch.
- $ 20 for any smartphone that ranges from a pixel density of 400 to 500 pixels per inch.
- $ 10 per smartphone with no more than 399 pixels per inch.
- $ 2.5 for low-class smart phones in some European countries.
This license fee is a premium package that includes all major Google applications including YouTube, Play Store, Gmail and Maps except Chrome browser and Google search engine, where smart phone manufacturers can install chrome applications and search in advance. If any company chooses not to include Chrome in any smart phone sold in the EEA, this means that the company will not receive its share of the profits generated by Chrome's application and agreed with Google.
All these new conditions will come into force as of February 2019.
