France Orders Break Up of Orange iPhone Exclusivity Deal
Linked by Kroc Camen on Wed 17th Dec 2008 19:32 UTC, submitted by risbac
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless 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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StephenBeDoper
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2005-07-06

Great opportunity though. Because now you get to know how it feels to live in a dictatorship. Tell me, any difference? Any chance of US Army comin' over to "liberate" ya? :-P


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).

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h3rman Member since:
2006-08-09

Good luck getting rid of those reactionaries. Those folks will do whatever it takes to drag down Canada along with the American empire.
I saw this y.tube video somewhere in which (IIRC) Harper had this speech that was exactly the same (I mean, verbatim) as another speech by the Australian PM. Those people have this neocon network or something where they coordinate stuff, IAC they're clearly not thinking for themselves.

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StephenBeDoper Member since:
2005-07-06

Definitely - I'm seeing more and more rhetoric from the Conservative party that appears to copy-pasted. It's made all the more obvious by the fact that a lot of the rhetoric simply isn't applicable in Canada.

Anyway, I've gone completely OT - enough ranting from me ;)

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