If this week seems a bit quiet on iPhone news, perhaps it is because the (supposedly official) announcement of Orange distributing Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) handset in France has been stalled over revenue sharing disputes. That, at least, is today’s report, which comes from French weekly Challenges. The article notes, without citing sources, that the mobile operator is unhappy with Apple’s demands for at least a third of service revenues from iPhone subscriptions. Apparently the issue lies in how phones and service contracts are sold under French law—they cannot be sold together—and that Apple realized it might not make much margin out of the phones alone. The article also says that if an agreement is not reached by the middle of next week, Orange will miss its window to prepare for the Christmas mobile boom.