Linked by Kroc Camen on Wed 17th Dec 2008 19:32 UTC, submitted by risbac
The French competition council has ordered the iPhone be opened up to other French carriers (Google-translated), breaking the exclusivity deal with Orange (France Telecom). The complaint was filed by France's third largest operator Bouygues Telecom who said that the deal violated local competition laws. Though the ruling [fr] is temporary whilst the issue is investigated further, the ruling did state that the arrangement reduced the effects of price competition, network quality and customer service.
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The biggest effect is that the previous Liberal PMs have retroactively become much more popular.
Luckily, Harper's conservatives haven't managed to win anything more than a very slim minority government - so they haven't had the power to do any real damage (thank the Ineffable Bob for parliamentary democracy).
It's not looking like he'll be around much longer, either - he had to pro-rogue parliament just to avoid a vote of no confidence. And I think he's left a bad taste in the mouths of many people by trying to bring US-style inflammatory "talking-point" rhetoric into Canadian politics (their most recent tactics could be a copy-paste from the Karl Rove playbook).