{"id":994868,"date":"2026-02-26T07:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994868"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:59:09","slug":"apple-and-amazon-took-too-long-to-remove-anti-competitive-clauses-spanish-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/26\/apple-and-amazon-took-too-long-to-remove-anti-competitive-clauses-spanish-watchdog-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Amazon took too long to remove anti-competitive clauses, Spanish watchdog says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple and Amazon took too long to take out anti-competitive clauses outlining Amazon&#8217;s conditions as an Apple distributor that the companies had been told to remove immediately, Spain&#8217;s competition regulator ruled on \u200cWednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The CNMC \u2060regulator fined \u2060the two companies 194 million euros ($228 million) in total in July 2023 over those clauses \u200band ordered their immediate removal from distribution contracts. It said they unfairly restricted the number of Apple \u200bresellers on Amazon&#8217;s website in Spain. The latest finding of infringement could mean a further fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple and Amazon took too long to take out anti-competitive clauses outlining Amazon&#8217;s conditions as an Apple distributor that the companies had been told to remove immediately, Spain&#8217;s competition regulator ruled on \u200cWednesday. The CNMC \u2060regulator fined \u2060the two companies 194 million euros ($228 million) in total in July 2023 over those clauses \u200band ordered their immediate removal from distribution contracts. It said they unfairly restricted the number of Apple \u200bresellers on Amazon&#8217;s website in Spain. The latest finding of infringement could mean a further fine.<\/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-994868","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\/994868","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=994868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}