If I'm reading this correctly, this is about the deals Google had, between December 2019 and March 2021, with Telstra, Optus and TPG (apparently Australia's three largest telecommunications companies), to be the default (and only) pre-installed search engine on Android phones sold by those companies, and those companies would in return be paid by Google some fraction of its search-ads revenues.

Some things I'm curious about, and would be helpful context:

- Why did they stop in 2021, and is it normal for these things to take 4+ years to resolution?

- Does Google have similar deals in other countries, e.g. in the US does it have similar deals with T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T? If yes are they are similarly anticompetitive, and if not why not?

- Similar question about the agreements Google has with Mozilla and Apple, to be the default search engine on their browsers.

- Roughly how much would this deal have been worth to Google? I imagine it's not very likely the providers would have chosen a different default search engine, though without this deal they'd likely have more options pre-configured so users would have had more choice (and this I imagine is the primary anti-competitiveness complaint in the first place).

> Does Google have similar deals in other countries

Wikipedia has pages on antitrust cases against Google in the world [0] and specifically in U.S. [1,2] and in European Union [3].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google#Antitrust

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_(2...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_(2...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_cases_against_Google...

Google has had these deals in many other countries with both carriers and manufacturers. In many cases, that agreement has already been found completely illegal (possibly why they stopped here).

The deal is the Android MADA and you can find examples of it going back over a decade.