IPhones Are Radios, Not Phones, Under Wash. Consumer Law

By Ben Adlin ( February 24, 2026, 8:05 PM EST) -- A federal judge tossed a case accusing Apple, Best Buy and Walmart of breaking a Washington state law meant to protect telephone buyers, ruling in a matter of first impression that iPhones qualify as radio equipment, not telephone handsets, for the purposes of the state's Telephone Buyers' Protection Act....

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