Samsung seems to be facing the same charges already faced by rival Apple, where the company was accused of reducing the speed of its old smart phones to force users to move to the latest versions, Samsung was one of the first companies that commented on the case of the iPhone and denied to be the same Practice.
This new news comes from a European country and is Italian, where the International News Agency "Reuters" that the Italian competition authority "Autorit Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato", the government agency in charge of monitoring competition in the commercial sector opened an investigation on charges of Samsung to do the same exercise Apple is reducing the speed and capabilities of its smartphones after each new update.
The Italian competition authority said that both Apple and Samsung did not teach their phone users to do this in order to force users to move to buy newer phones of their models, which Apple admitted, but denied that the order has a commercial purpose, but to protect batteries And promised to stop the practice and reduced the batteries' batteries by $ 50 to only $ 29 in compensation for the affected users.
Samsung did not comment.