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Orange, France’s one and only iPhone service-provider has apparently been capping 3G speeds. The reason you ask? One Orange service rep claims Orange has done this to “preserve the stability of the network.”

Several suspicious Orange customers compared their download speeds to those of neighboring countries such as Germany. The results were quite startling, Orange customers were receiving a measly 400Kbps which paled in comparison to Germany’s 1800Kbps.

After news of this broke, furious Orange customers flooded Orange’s phone-lines with calls demanding Orange do something about this. To remedy the problem, Orange tech support began lifting this download cap on a cases">case to cases">case basis.

It has been officially confirmed that Orange was and still is limiting the 3G speed, their reason, to “preserve the stability of the network.”

After meeting at their headquarters in Paris, Orange has agreed to lift this cap on September 15th.

I personally believe that is completely out of line for a company who has a monopoly over the French iPhone business to be limiting 3G speeds without telling its customers. Not only does this limit imposed by Orange defeat the purpose of 3G in the first place, but on a more moral level it is just plain wrong.

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