France is one of the countries where iPhone customers can choose between different carriers. It doesn’t stop them from selling iPhones but gives an encouragement for investing in infrastructure instead, as 9 to 5 Mac reports:
Interestingly, the Orange chief has a wildly different tale than the sob stories coming from AT&T and O2 regarding the iPhone’s impact on data services. While the original US and UK iPhone carriers have complained their networks quickly became “saturated” by users demanding data, Didier counters, “We have not had this problem because we have not hesitated to invest in infrastructure.”