05-04-2023 13:22 via telecoms.com

Ofcom refers UK cloud market to competition watchdog

Some of Microsoft and Amazon’s business practices might be hurting competition in the cloud market.
UK telco watchdog Ofcom is halfway through an investigation it launched in September into the dominance of hyperscalers, and it seems sufficiently perturbed by what it has found so far that on Wednesday it proposed referring the matter to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Ofcom found certain features and practices that make it harder or discourage businesses from switching provide
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