{"id":1035640,"date":"2026-09-16T07:39:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035640"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:17:45","slug":"indian-consumer-regulator-escalates-probe-into-apples-software-warranty-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/indian-consumer-regulator-escalates-probe-into-apples-software-warranty-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian consumer regulator escalates probe into Apple&#8217;s software warranty terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s consumer regulator is examining Apple&#8217;s software warranty terms in an investigation of the iOS 18 update alleged to have damaged iPhone functionality, compelling users to pay &#8220;exorbitant&#8221; sums for repairs, documents show. <\/p>\n<p>The sparring is shaping as Apple&#8217;s latest headache in a growth market where it is fast expanding iPhone manufacturing and rapidly growing market share, but also fending off accusations of breaching domestic antitrust laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s consumer regulator is examining Apple&#8217;s software warranty terms in an investigation of the iOS 18 update alleged to have damaged iPhone functionality, compelling users to pay &#8220;exorbitant&#8221; sums for repairs, documents show. The sparring is shaping as Apple&#8217;s latest headache in a growth market where it is fast expanding iPhone manufacturing and rapidly growing market share, but also fending off accusations of breaching domestic antitrust laws.<\/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-1035640","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\/1035640","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=1035640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035657,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035640\/revisions\/1035657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}