India tests domestic operating system days after Google's antitrust setback


FILE PHOTO Commuters watch videos on their mobile phones as they travel in a suburban train in Mumbai India April 2 2016. REUTERSShailesh AndradeFile PhotoFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: Commuters watch videos on their mobile phones as they travel in a suburban train in Mumbai, India, April 2, 2016. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade/File Photo/File Photo

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's government on Tuesday tested locally developed mobile operating system BharOS, a move seen as challenging the dominance of Google's Android just days after the U.S. giant suffered a major antitrust setback in the country.

The government endorsement of the operating system comes after Google lost its fight in India's Supreme Court to block an antitrust order that will force the company to change how it markets its Android operating system.

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