France Telecom, iPhone deal on hold
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 5, 2007 at 10:29am
The Orange brand of France Telecom is contemplating the prospect of not being able to launch iPhone in France in time for Christmas due to tensions between the two companies, French daily Les Echos.
“The risk we’re evaluating this week is that Apple crosses France off,” the newspaper quotes a source at Orange as saying. The difficulties stem from a French law that would require the iPhone to be sold both with and without contracts, undermining its exclusivity for Orange and Apple’s demand of up to 30 percent of voice and data revenues, Les Echos reports.
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