(Reuters) – Zoom Video Communications has held meetings with regulators from the United States, European Union, and other jurisdictions to express concerns about Microsoft’s alleged anti-competitive behavior, according to a report from Bloomberg News on Thursday.
A source familiar with the matter stated that the video conferencing platform has met with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, as well as competition enforcers from the EU, UK, and Germany during the past year.
Zoom raised its concerns regarding Microsoft’s preferential treatment towards its chat and video app Teams through price bundling and product design, the report added.
“If you have unfair competition, you may not win,” said Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, responding to a question at the Goldman Sachs Communications & Technology conference on Tuesday.
The FTC declined to comment on the issue, while both Zoom and Microsoft have not yet responded to Reuters’ requests for comment.
Microsoft has previously become the subject of an antitrust investigation by the European Union in July due to the bundling of its Teams with its Office product. This investigation came as a result of a complaint filed by Salesforce-owned workspace messaging app Slack in 2020.
In response to the investigation, Microsoft announced a month later that they would disentangle Teams from its Office products and facilitate compatibility with competing products, in an effort to avoid a potential EU antitrust fine.
Granth Vanaik reporting from Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber.
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