Orange has one month to seal sublicensing deals for Orange Sport with other operators, starting with Neuf and SFR (both controlled by Vivendi), the two rival ADSL services that originally brought the complaint to the Paris court.
It was also ordered to pay the two companies’ court costs. A similar complaint had been filed with the national competition authority, the Conseil de la Concurrence, by pay-television operator Canal Plus.
For more details see the forthcoming issue of TV Sports Markets.