Google sees EU anti-trust threat to its giveaway model

Google’ s give away model for mobile-phone software will beat risk if European Union anti trust regulators order it to change distribution pacts with phone makers and telecom operators, one of the search-engine giant’ s top lawyers said in a blog post on Thursday. Google is telling the EU that the Android operating system “hasn’ t hurt competition” when it’ s installed on phones and tablets for free and under strict conditions, Google General Counsel Kent Walker said in the blog.