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 4.6B is from just the phones, not including Macs or iPods. Their total revenues last quarter were 11.7B non-GAAP, or 7.9B GAAP (subscription accounting, where they spread certain revenues over 8 quarters).