{"id":1017898,"date":"2026-07-01T07:38:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017898"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:09:28","slug":"uk-regulator-proposes-easing-apple-google-app-store-payment-rules-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/01\/uk-regulator-proposes-easing-apple-google-app-store-payment-rules-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UK regulator proposes easing Apple, Google app store payment rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Britain&#8217;s competition regulator on Tuesday proposed allowing app developers to steer users to alternative payment options outside Apple and Google&#8217;s app stores to cut fees and boost competition. <\/p>\n<p>The Competition and Markets \u200cAuthority said \u2060the \u2060proposals would remove restrictions that currently prevent UK developers from directing users to off-platform payment options, which are banned by Apple and restricted by Google. <\/p>\n<p>The watchdog said any fees charged by the companies for allowing such &#8220;steering&#8221; would \u2060need to \u200cbe fair and reasonable, and should be lower than current app store \u2060commissions, with savings passed on to consumers or reinvested in innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Britain&#8217;s competition regulator on Tuesday proposed allowing app developers to steer users to alternative payment options outside Apple and Google&#8217;s app stores to cut fees and boost competition. The Competition and Markets \u200cAuthority said \u2060the \u2060proposals would remove restrictions that currently prevent UK developers from directing users to off-platform payment options, which are banned by Apple and restricted by Google. The watchdog said any fees charged by the companies for allowing such &#8220;steering&#8221; would \u2060need to \u200cbe fair and reasonable, and should be lower than current app store \u2060commissions, with savings passed on to consumers or reinvested in innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017915,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017898\/revisions\/1017915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}