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Google's revised Play Store policy could violate new South Korean law, communications regulator says

By Jenny Lee ( November 8, 2021, 07:54 GMT | Insight) -- Bewildered at the news that Google plans to impose a service fee of between 6 percent and 26 percent on developers that use third-party payment systems for in-app purchases, South Korea's communications regulator expressed concerns that the company's revised policy may violate the enforcement decree of the country's new law challenging Apple and Google's dominance over the distribution of apps on mobile devices, MLex has learned.When Wilson White, Google's director of Public Policy and Government Relations, set out the newly updated Play Store policy during a recent meeting with South Korean officials, Han Sang-hyuk, the head of South Korea’s communications agency, should have taken his words with a grain of salt....

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