Article 7 — Obligation for gatekeepers on interoperability of number-independent interpersonal communications services

Digital Markets Act — Regulation (EU) 2022/1925

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1. Where a gatekeeper provides number-independent interpersonal communications services that are listed in the designation decision pursuant to Article 3(9), it shall make the basic functionalities of its number-independent interpersonal communications services interoperable with the number-independent interpersonal communications services of another provider offering or intending to offer such services in the Union, by providing the necessary technical interfaces or similar solutions that facilitate interoperability, upon request, and free of charge.

2. The gatekeeper shall make at least the following basic functionalities referred to in paragraph 1 interoperable where the gatekeeper itself provides those functionalities to its own end users:

(a) following the listing in the designation decision pursuant to Article 3(9):

(i) end-to-end text messaging between two individual end users;

(ii) sharing of images, voice messages, videos and other attached files in end to end communication between two individual end users;

(b) within 2 years from the designation:

(i) end-to-end text messaging within groups of individual end users;

(ii) sharing of images, voice messages, videos and other attached files in end-to-end communication between a group chat and an individual end user;

(c) within 4 years from the designation:

(i) end-to-end voice calls between two individual end users;

(ii) end-to-end video calls between two individual end users;

(iii) end-to-end voice calls between a group chat and an individual end user;

(iv) end-to-end video calls between a group chat and an individual end user.

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