France passed a law banning the use of mobile phones on school grounds for children under the age of 15.

法国通过了一项法律，禁止15岁以下的孩子在学校使用手机。

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That in turn may explain why the bigger continental European countries, notably France, Germany, Italy, are not as mobile as Nordic ones.

反过来那可能解释了为什么那些更大的欧洲大陆国家，特别是法国，德国，意大利都没有北欧国家那么流动的原因。

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On September 8th Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom said they would merge their British mobile-phone operations, respectively T-Mobile and Orange, to create a new market leader.

9月8日，德国电信公司和法国电信公司宣称将同t - Mobile和Orange两家英国移动电话公司合并以成为新的业界霸主。

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"Three years ago we were designing games for WAP and we knew it wasn't working, " says Giles Corbett, managing director of France's mobile games developer In-Fusio, which designed In-Spirit.

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Orange, which is France's biggest mobile phone operator, has 35 million customers in Europe and the Middle East.

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Even as mobile markets such as France and New Zealand are rocked by aggressive price wars, the US mobile market has continued slumbering.

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