{"id":3103,"date":"2026-08-03T03:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:38:15","slug":"hp-fined-1-4-billion-rupees-for-cartelization-of-ink-cartridges-toner-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=3103","title":{"rendered":"HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for \u201ccartelization\u201d of ink cartridges, toner, PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government has fined HP India and its partners a total of 1.4 billion rupees (about $14.4 million) for working with reseller partners in the \u201ccartelization\u201d of computers, ink cartridges, and toner.<\/p>\n<p>The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said this week that it found HP India had colluded with some channel partners to drive up the cost of bids for government contracts for computers, as well as for selling ink cartridges, toner, and other printing supplies, including graphic and digital manufacturing supplies.<\/p>\n<p>It said that HP was aiming to outcompete other OEMs and discourage resellers from selling \u201ccounterfeit\u201d ink and toner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/07\/hp-fined-1-4-billion-rupees-for-cartelization-of-ink-cartridges-toner-pcs\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/07\/hp-fined-1-4-billion-rupees-for-cartelization-of-ink-cartridges-toner-pcs\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/07\/hp-fined-1-4-billion-rupees-for-cartelization-of-ink-cartridges-toner-pcs\/' target='_blank'>Read the original article on arstechnica.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government has fined HP India and its partners a total of 1.4 billion rupees (about $14.4 million) for working with reseller partners in the \u201ccartelization\u201d of computers, ink cartridges, and toner. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said this week that it found HP India had colluded with some channel partners to drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}