{"id":951969,"date":"2025-08-02T07:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951969"},"modified":"2025-08-02T07:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:49:22","slug":"uk-court-refuses-permission-to-appeal-in-bt-overcharging-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/02\/uk-court-refuses-permission-to-appeal-in-bt-overcharging-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"UK court refuses permission to appeal in BT &#8216;overcharging&#8217; lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: A bid to revive a 1.3 billion-pound ($1.7 billion) lawsuit against BT alleging the British telecoms company had overcharged millions of customers for fixed telephone lines was on Friday rejected by London&#8217;s Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled in favour of BT in December on a case which accused the former telecoms monopoly of excessively increasing prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: A bid to revive a 1.3 billion-pound ($1.7 billion) lawsuit against BT alleging the British telecoms company had overcharged millions of customers for fixed telephone lines was on Friday rejected by London&#8217;s Court of Appeal. The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled in favour of BT in December on a case which accused the former telecoms monopoly of excessively increasing prices.<\/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-951969","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\/951969","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=951969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}