US EditionApple Sentenced to Pay Millions to Free, Sfr and Bouygues
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Apple has been ordered to pay several tens of millions of euros to Free, SFR and Bouygues Telecom. The apple firm here pays for old business practices considered abusive about its iPhone.
Apple has been ordered to pay millions of euros to Bouygues Telecom, SFR, and Free for imposing abusive contracts on iPhone sales. [Read more]Did you know? Google News lets you choose your media. Don't miss out on Frandroid and Numerama.
12 years after the opening of an investigation by DGCCRF, Apple is ordered to pay heavy compensation to French operators, due to clauses deemed illegal in its contracts. Apple, in particular, obliged operators to share their patents, to communicate data free of charge on their networks and to set up an advertising fund to promote iPhones.
The French court sentenced Apple to €48 million for imposing unfair terms on the operators Bouygues Telecom, SFR and Free at the time of the sale of the iPhones. A verdict sanctioning the dominance of the Californian giant on the French mobile market. After twelve years of proceedings, the French court ruled. Apple [...] The article Free, SFR and Bouygues Telecom win a long-term victory against Apple and have it condemned was published on Univer…
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