As expected, France Telecom’s (NYSE: FTE) mobile unit Orange will offer the iPhone in France, and for once the source isn’t anonymous: Thomson Financial is reporting it from CEO Didier Lombard. There’s no details of price, but it will be distributed “before Christmas, probably in November” according to Lombard—I’m guessing November 9th, same as the UK and Germany. I also think it would be hard to justify a different price point than the 399 euros it’s being offered for in Germany.

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