French iPhone Launch at Risk
From Forbes.com:
PARIS (Thomson Financial) - A dispute between Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) and Orange over commission payments could jeopardize the iPhone’s launch in France before Christmas, French weekly magazine Challenges reported.
Orange is the iPhone’s sole distributor in France, but the French mobile telecom operator is objecting to the size of commission payments being demanded by Apple, said to be more than one-third of each subscription fee, the magazine reported.
Insert joke about mixing apples and oranges…