Orange fined £174 million.

mobilegossip

See this recent article in media.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/01/french_fines

I wonder if they have started to charge for freephone calls,to pay the fine perhaps

seaniboy

ofcom take note this is how a regulator works, read this too (Wanadoo and Orange owned by French Telecom have both been up the creak without a paddle recently)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/16/wanadoo_asa/

redux

I was just reading the response of Orange France [Google translation]. I wasn't really forming a strong opinion until I read this ...

Price - the level of price for average consumption in mobile telephony is lower in France than in the principal European countries, including in the United Kingdom;

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Orange payg tariff Mobicarte
Classique €0.55 per min all calls
Soir et weekend €0.35 off-peak, €0.65 peak

Orange payg in UK 15p per minute

... the French are paying at least double :rotfl:


The case applies to France only, and more than half this time was before France Telecom bought Orange.

But I well remember some roaming tariffs nearly doubling not much later, and some doubled again a year or two after that.

Let's see the EU sort out roaming charges now.