The British regulator will check the cloud business of Amazon, Microsoft and Google for monopoly

British telecommunications regulator Ofcom informed, which will launch an investigation into the cloud operations of Amazon, Microsoft and Google for a possible monopoly of these companies in the British market. Ofcom notes that the total cloud revenue of these three companies in the country is 81% of the entire UK cloud market. Therefore, Ofcom experts will study whether such a situation is not a monopoly, and whether it is in conflict with British laws on fair competition.

In addition, Ofcom will look into the operation of services such as WhatsApp, FaceTime and Zoom and their possible impact on the UK messaging and telephony market. “We want to understand whether restrictions on these services to users of other services are subject to litigation,” Ofcom said.

Evgeniy Khvostik