Uzbekistan designates OLX Uzbekistan as dominant digital platform

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — Uzbekistan’s Competition Committee has included OLX Classifieds in the list of digital platform operators occupying a dominant position in the market.

The company operates the OLX Uzbekistan classifieds service and has been recognized as dominant in the online advertising market within the classifieds segment.

According to the regulator’s decision, the company will be required to implement a mandatory antitrust compliance system in line with current legislation. The measure is aimed at preventing potential abuses by market participants with dominant positions.

In August 2025, TBC Bank Group announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in OLX UZ from the Prosus group. A joint venture was created for the transaction together with international investment holding Titan Investments, in which TBC holds 50% plus one share.

At that time, TBC Uzbekistan announced plans to integrate the classifieds service into its own ecosystem and introduce digital banking products on the platform. The company stated that OLX would continue to operate under its brand.

Under Uzbek legislation, a digital platform may be classified as dominant if it demonstrates network effects and meets one of several criteria, including annual revenue exceeding 100,000 base calculation units, more than 50,000 monthly active end users, or more than 3,000 active business users per month.

The status may also be assigned to platforms holding more than 40% of a specific online services market, regardless of revenue or user base. Such status is subject to review every three years.

For dominant digital platforms, legislation imposes restrictions aimed at protecting competition.

These include prohibitions on restricting entrepreneurs from interacting with users outside the platform, using competitors’ seller data without permission, and providing preferential treatment to the platform’s own goods or services over those of third parties.

Additional restrictions apply to actions that prevent the use of third-party applications and services, as well as unjustified degradation of service quality or limitations on users’ ability to switch to other service providers.