Meta will have to make WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger work with third-party chat apps, per the EU’s new gatekeeper rules.
The DMA includes an interoperability obligation for gatekeepers providing messenger services concerning basic functionalities.
Some basic functionalities have to be made available for interoperability within six months from the designation of the gatekeeper, , more complex ones will be introduced gradually and have to be made available after two years or four years from the moment of designation. It is important to stress that non-gatekeeper service providers of messenger services are not obliged to implement interoperability, meaning they are free to choose either to benefit from such interoperability obligation that falls upon the gatekeeper, or to keep their service separate from the gatekeeper.
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