This issues paper poses questions and seeks submissions from consumers, businesses and interested stakeholders about the investment decisions made by digital platforms, the interconnectedness of expanded products and services within each ecosystem and the potential impacts on competition and consumers.

The interim report will examine products and services offered by digital platform service providers across a variety of sectors and will use examples like the expansion into consumer cloud storage and smart home devices to analyse the relationships between digital platform services and various services offered in their digital platform ecosystems.

The interim report will also examine the expansion strategies used by digital platform service providers and how this has affected interoperability of products and services across ecosystems and if it has increased consumer lock-in behaviours or other conduct like bundling, tying or self-preferencing to inhibit competition.

Submissions are due by 5 April 2023.