The country's Fair Trade Commission finds that Taiwan's three main mobile service providers have been submitting pricing plans to Apple for approval, which violates the law.
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(Credit: CNET)Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission has fined Apple 20 million New Taiwan dollars -- about $666,000 -- after determining the company has been illegally interfering with iPhone pricing in the country, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The commission found that Apple was telling Taiwan's three primary mobile-service providers how much to charge for iPhones, a violation of the nation's Fair Trade Act.
"Through the email correspondence between Apple and these three telecom companies we discovered the companies submit their pricing plans to Apple to be approved or confirmed before the products hit the market," the commission said in a statement, according to the WSJ.
Apple can appeal the ruling but will be fined up to 50 million New Taiwan dollars if it does not stop its interference, the commission said. The WSJ could not reach Apple for comment.
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