{"id":970335,"date":"2025-10-30T08:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970335"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:03:50","slug":"apple-ordered-to-pay-french-operators-e39-million-over-iphone-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/30\/apple-ordered-to-pay-french-operators-e39-million-over-iphone-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple ordered to pay French operators \u20ac39 million over iPhone sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A French court has ordered Apple to pay around \u20ac39 million ($45 million) to mobile network operators over accusations it imposed unfair contract conditions to allow them to sell iPhones.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris commercial court also fined Apple eight million euros in its ruling, issued earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Apple told AFP it would appeal the ruling, which concerns its contracts with France&#8217;s main mobile network operators more than a decade ago, when the competition and consumer protection authority, the DGCCRF, looked at the conditions the US tech giant imposed to sell iPhones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A French court has ordered Apple to pay around \u20ac39 million ($45 million) to mobile network operators over accusations it imposed unfair contract conditions to allow them to sell iPhones. The Paris commercial court also fined Apple eight million euros in its ruling, issued earlier this month. Apple told AFP it would appeal the ruling, which concerns its contracts with France&#8217;s main mobile network operators more than a decade ago, when the competition and consumer protection authority, the DGCCRF, looked at the conditions the US tech giant imposed to sell iPhones.<\/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-970335","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\/970335","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=970335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}