Posted on 06/03/2015 2:20:03 PM PDT by Nachum
If he could, Stephane Richard, the CEO of French mobile company Orange said Wednesday, he would “tomorrow” end his company's association with its Israeli partner. “We want to terminate this and to fix this, we don’t want it,” Richard said at a press conference in Cairo. “In the existing contract, it gives us the option to terminate this without exposing this to a huge financial risk. If you were the CEO of this company you would act the same.”
In Israel, Orange is represented by Partner Communications, and Israeli-Chinese owned concern that franchises the name Orange. The Israeli company is completely independent of world Orange, the company said in response Wednesday to worried customers who flooded its phone centers with calls, seeking to find out if the company was dropping them as customers.
Orange has been targeted by a BDS campaign in Egypt and several European countries. The company raised the ire of BDS groups who allege that the Israel operation provided free phone calls to IDF soldiers fighting in Gaza during last summer's Operation Protective Edge. In the past several weeks, large numbers of Egyptians have switched companies, putting a dent into the company's business there. Richard was in Cairo, among other reasons, to plead with customers not to leave the company.
The only reason Orange has not terminated its franchise contract with Partner – from which, Richard said, “we make very little money” - was to avoid litigation in Israeli courts. “"Sorry to say, but a dispute with Partner when you have zero legal position in Israeli courts is not something that I would recommend for my company. I am not going to pay hundreds of millions of euros only because I would have (to) take a risk, a huge risk, in terms of the penalties that we
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Something tells me you won't have to worry about it much longer.
But they’ll sell to ISIS and Iran.
Those Fench are something.
France has been sold out by its ruling elite. It’s a lost cause. Kiss it off and forget about it. Charles Martel is spinning in his grave but can’t save France from the islsmonazi enemy within. Apparently nothing can
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Vichy Rising!
Their service stinks, so no great loss.
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