France Telecom sued over Mobilcom
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Insolvency administrators for the ex-boss of German phone firm Mobilcom sue France Telecom for $5.74bn (4.26bn euros; Â£2.99bn) in damages.
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The popular online social network Facebook Inc. is being sued by an Indiana woman who alleges it has profited from its members sending thousands of unauthorized text messages to mobile phone users whose numbers previously belonged to other people.
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France's rail operator SNCF may face a multi-million dollar lawsuit after being accused of cooperating with the pro-Nazi Vichy regime during World War II.
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By Ross Tieman in Toulouse  The drive by French media and telecoms conglomerate Vivendi and its British partner Vodafone to usurp the dominance of historic operator France Telecom in the French telecoms market is gathering pace.
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In what market watchers are calling a new battle between a Russian oligarch and the state, Russia&#39;s second largest mobile phone operator, VimpelCom, has been hit with a 4.4 billion ruble (US$157 million, euro118 million) back-tax claim for 2001, company
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France Telecom  and Apple   are struggling to come to an agreement on the  distribution of the U.S. group's iPhone in France, Challenges  reported on Thursday on its website.
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Mobile phone maker Motorola Inc   said on Tuesday that two of its subsidiaries had sued  Aruba Networks Inc  for patent infringement related to  wireless local area network technologies.
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A lot more than bubbles at stake A long-running dispute between mobile phone networks O2 and 3 has been referred to the European Court of Justice for clarification. The dispute centres on a series of 3 adverts which O2 says infringed its trade marks.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Europe's second highest court threw out an appeal by France TÃ©lÃ©comÂ of the European Commission's 2003 antitrust ruling against the firm on Tuesday, ordering it to pay the â¬10.35 million ($12.97 million) fine. The Commission found Wanadoo, France TÃ©lÃ©com's Internet subsidiary, guilty of effectively shutting out competitors from the lucrative high-speed Internet market by setting its prices artificially low. France TÃ©lÃ©com appealed the decision claiming it wasn't a dominant player at the time. Under E.U. law, predatory pricing, when a firm deliberately makes a loss in order to deter others from entering the market, is only illegal when carried out by dominant firms. Tuesday's ruling strengthens the Commission's hand in dealing with other competition abuses in the telecom market. "The Commission is delighted with this ruling," said Jonathan Todd, the regulator's spokesman on competition issues. Since the 2003 antitrust ruling, the French market for ADSLÂ has grown enormously. "The French market has become one of the most competitive in Europe, thanks to the European Commission," Todd said. The Commission began investigating Wanadoo in July 1999 during an inquiry within the E.U. into the provision of local loop access services and use of the residential local loop. Fourteen months later, the regulator opened a formal probe into the French company, examining the prices Wanadoo charged its residential customers in France for high-speed Internet access. The Commission found that the predatory prices charged by Wanadoo for its eXtense and Wanadoo ADSL services did not enable it to cover its variable costs until August 2001 or to cover its full costs between then and October 2002 as part of a plan to preempt the market in high-speed Internet access during a key phase in its development. The Commission concluded thatÂ this conduct constituted an abuse of its dominant position in the French market for residential high-speed Internet access. The court found that Wanadoo had eight times the number of ADSL subscribers than its closest competitor during the period in question. That and its link with France TÃ©lÃ©com, the incumbent telecommunications operator in France, "conferred on it advantages over its competitors," the court said. France TÃ©lÃ©com said it retains its right to appeal to the European Court of Justice, the Union's top court, but no decision to appeal had been made on Tuesday.
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MONTREAL : A consumer group in Quebec has sued the pharmaceutical firm Merck in Canada, charging that it kept its pain and arthritis drug Vioxx on the market despite the risk of strokes and heart attacks.
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IDT Telecom, Inc. and Union Telecard Alliance, LLC (collectively, "IDT")  commenced a civil anti-fraud lawsuit today against certain of its  competitors in the US pre-paid calling card market.
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Elisa, Finland's second largest phone operator, sued Finnish-Swedish competitor TeliaSonera for 300 million euros (386 million dollars) in repayment and damages, claiming it has been overcharged for services.
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In France, 12 people have gone on trial for running a phone-tapping operation used by the late President Francois Mitterrand to monitor his opponents.
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Mobile phone operators face a new attack on their revenue in Europe after the UK telecoms regulator expressed concern about "extremely high" prices paid by consumers and business people for web surfing on their mobiles while abroad.
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The European Commission says Vodafone and T-Mobile abuse their dominant positions in the German mobile phone market.
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Following firm's complaint that French law was anti-European The company whose chief executives were arrested in France last week had already filed a formal complaint to the European Commission claiming that France's gambling laws conflicted with the EC Treaty.â¦
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A French lawyer acting for 100 small shareholders said on Monday he had sued French Societe Generale  over the way it unbundled billions of dollars in allegedly fraudulent share deals earlier this week.