New Android phones in Turkey to lose Google services in antitrust dispute

Google has stopped issuing licenses for new Android phone models sold in Turkey, meaning they will not be able to ship with its services, Reuters reports. The development comes just over a year after the country’s competition regulator fined Google 93 million lira ($17.4 million) over competition law violations. Although Google responded by making changes to its agreements with its business partners, the country’s regulator was reportedly unhappy that they continued to not allow changes to the phones’ default search engine.

In a statement, Google said that it has told its business partners that it will not be approving licensing requests for new Android phones for the Turkish market. That means they won’t come with access to the Google...

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