Source : PC Inpact The Albis commission in France met specially yesterday to vote on the royalty tax for the iPhone, which will henceforth tax this apparatus and those similar in the same way as a iPod - thus the 8 GB model will soon cost 7 euros more.
This vote was done under difficult conditions, about half of the voters, representatives of industrialists and certain consumer associations having practised the policy of the empty chair.
This price rise must be put into effect by April 1 - and unless a miracle happens and Orange absorbs this charge - it will be added to the retail price.
It is this decision to tax the telephones as much as the mp3 players without making a study of usage that feeds the resentment - this commission has the right to make discretionary decisions without having any real dialogue.
[translation by crispin]
