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The U.K.'s CMA is launching so-called "strategic market status" (SMS) investigations into the mobile ecosystems of Apple and Google.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has formally launched an antitrust investigation into Apple and Google's strategic market status.

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The investigation will look for "potential exploitative conduct" by the tech companies, which dominate the mobile market.

The DMCC probes that the CMA announced today have two main goals. The first is to determine if Apple and Google have strategic market status in the mobile market. According to the CMA, the second goal is to identify whether the companies engage in business practices that harm the competition.

Britain's Competition and Markets Authority announced investigations into Apple and Google on Thursday to examine if their mobile ecosystems are breaking the country's competition rules.