{"id":1032845,"date":"2026-09-03T07:18:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032845"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:54:18","slug":"opera-loses-court-challenge-against-eu-exemption-of-microsofts-edge-from-dma-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/03\/opera-loses-court-challenge-against-eu-exemption-of-microsofts-edge-from-dma-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera loses court challenge against EU exemption of Microsoft&#8217;s Edge from DMA rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian browser maker \u200bOpera on Wednesday lost its court challenge \u200bagainst EU antitrust regulators&#8217; decision to exempt Microsoft&#8217;s browser Edge from rules reining in the power of Big Tech. <\/p>\n<p>The \u200cEuropean Commission \u2060in its \u20602024 decision said Edge was not an important gateway for businesses to reach users even though it met the quantitative criteria set out under the Digital Markets Act which sets out a list of dos and don&#8217;ts for Big Tech. <\/p>\n<p>Opera argued \u2060that the \u200cCommission, which acts as the EU \u200bcompetition \u200benforcer, had misapplied the criteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian browser maker \u200bOpera on Wednesday lost its court challenge \u200bagainst EU antitrust regulators&#8217; decision to exempt Microsoft&#8217;s browser Edge from rules reining in the power of Big Tech. The \u200cEuropean Commission \u2060in its \u20602024 decision said Edge was not an important gateway for businesses to reach users even though it met the quantitative criteria set out under the Digital Markets Act which sets out a list of dos and don&#8217;ts for Big Tech. Opera argued \u2060that the \u200cCommission, which acts as the EU \u200bcompetition \u200benforcer, had misapplied the criteria.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032845","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=1032845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032867,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032845\/revisions\/1032867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}