{"id":1039223,"date":"2026-09-29T06:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039223"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:34:00","slug":"apple-and-amazon-face-revived-uk-consumer-lawsuit-over-product-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/apple-and-amazon-face-revived-uk-consumer-lawsuit-over-product-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Amazon face revived UK consumer lawsuit over product sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Competition Appeal Tribunal on Monday allowed part of a consumer lawsuit against Apple and Amazon to proceed over claims they restricted competition in the sale of Apple products on Amazon&#8217;s UK marketplace. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges Apple and Amazon agreed in 2018 to limit which sellers could offer Apple and Beats-branded products on Amazon&#8217;s UK website, reducing competition and inflating prices. <\/p>\n<p>The three-judge tribunal allowed claims relating to Apple products bought through Amazon&#8217;s marketplace to proceed, but rejected a broader claim covering products bought directly from Apple and other retailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Competition Appeal Tribunal on Monday allowed part of a consumer lawsuit against Apple and Amazon to proceed over claims they restricted competition in the sale of Apple products on Amazon&#8217;s UK marketplace. The lawsuit alleges Apple and Amazon agreed in 2018 to limit which sellers could offer Apple and Beats-branded products on Amazon&#8217;s UK website, reducing competition and inflating prices. The three-judge tribunal allowed claims relating to Apple products bought through Amazon&#8217;s marketplace to proceed, but rejected a broader claim covering products bought directly from Apple and other retailers.<\/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-1039223","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\/1039223","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=1039223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039248,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039223\/revisions\/1039248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}