“Apple may be celebrating the release of the iPhone SE and the 9.7-inch iPad Pro, but the company likely isn’t nearly as thrilled with recent allegations made by France’s competition, consumer, and fraud agency, la Direction Générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation, et de la Répression des Fraudes (DGCCRF), reports BFM TV,” Williams Pelegrin reports for Digital Trends. “”
“The DGCCRF filed a lawsuit against Apple through the Commercial Court of Paris,” Pelegrin reports. “According to the suit, Apple’s contracts with carriers were set up to benefit the Cupertino-based company in ways that violated France’s competition laws.”
“If Apple is found guilty of abusing its market position with these contractual provisions, the company could be forced to pay 48.5 million Euros, or roughly $55.2 million,” Pelegrin reports. “Out of that total, 40.5 million Euros, or roughly $46.1 million, would go to the four carriers listed in the lawsuit — SFR, Orange, Free Mobile, and Bouygues Telecom — with the remaining eight million Euros paid as fines.”
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