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12-08-2004, 7:56 AM
The United Kingdom's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) passed a complaint from a London-based consumer organization over Apple's iTunes pricing policy to the European Commission (EC) Friday.
In a statement, officials at Which?, the consumer advocacy group that filed the original complaint to the OFT, said they were pleased by the agency's decision to pass the matter up to the EC.
"U.K. consumers are getting a raw deal from Apple," Phil Evans, Which? principal policy advisor, said in a statement Friday. "The online music market is a huge growth area; the single market should work the same in this market as in others. Read more at InternetNews (http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3444781)
In a statement, officials at Which?, the consumer advocacy group that filed the original complaint to the OFT, said they were pleased by the agency's decision to pass the matter up to the EC.
"U.K. consumers are getting a raw deal from Apple," Phil Evans, Which? principal policy advisor, said in a statement Friday. "The online music market is a huge growth area; the single market should work the same in this market as in others. Read more at InternetNews (http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3444781)