By Munsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Google has been jolted after the Indian antitrust authority sought adjustments to the way it markets its Android system, which powers 97% of smartphones on the earth’s second greatest cellular market.

As a Jan. 19 deadline approaches, the U.S. agency has requested the Supreme Court to placed on maintain the directives of the Competition Commission of India (CCI), arguing that they danger stalling progress of its Android ecosystem within the nation.

Google licenses the system to smartphone makers, however critics say its restrictions are anti-competitive. The U.S. agency says Android offers extra alternative for everybody and such pacts assist maintain the working system free.

Google has mentioned that the adjustments sought by CCI would end in probably the most far-reaching alterations for the Android cellular platform within the final 14 to fifteen years.

Here are the authority’s 10 directives:

* Google shouldn’t be allowed to license its Play Store, from which customers obtain cellular apps, provided that machine producers pre-install Google apps corresponding to YouTube, Gmail or the Chrome browser.

* Google shouldn’t drive machine makers to pre-install a bouquet of apps or determine their placement.

* Google needs to be restrained from hanging agreements that guarantee exclusivity for its search companies on sensible units.

* Google shouldn’t prohibit smartphone customers from eradicating its pre-installed corresponding to Google Maps, Gmail and Youtube, which at present can’t be deleted from Android telephones, on which they’re provided pre-installed.

* Google ought to let customers decide a search engine of alternative for all related companies when organising a cellphone for the primary time.

* Google shouldn’t impose any curbs in India on the apply of “sideloading”, or downloading apps with out utilizing its app retailer.

* Google ought to enable third-party app shops to be hosted on Google’s Play Store.

* Competitors and app builders shouldn’t be denied entry to the programming interface of Google Play companies, the underlying software program system that powers Android units. This directive is supposed to make sure compatibility between apps on Play Store and third-party app shops primarily based on Android variants, the antitrust authority has mentioned.

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* Google shouldn’t incentivise or obligate producers for not promoting sensible units primarily based on Android variants.

* The CCI requested Google to not prohibit makers of Android smartphones from growing different units, corresponding to tablets or TVs primarily based on modified variations of Android.

(Reporting by Munsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra in New Delhi; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)