Competition Commission ill-equipped to handle intricacies of digital mkts

The competition regulator is ill-equipped to handle the intricacies of digital markets

A Reuters report a few weeks ago noted that the Competition Commission of India (CCI) is  probing whether Google’s Android mobile operating system has been used to block its rivals. As the fair market regulator, the CCI should be examining such issues. But it appears to be venturing into areas where it has not shown any strong degree of perspicacity. 

Digital markets are new territory for all competition regulators worldwide. At one level, markets are intuitively easy to understand. They are a place (physical, spatial, neural) where goods, services and now data are bought and sold. An enterprise can be seen