A French court has ordered Apple to pay around 39 million euros ($45 million) to mobile network operators over accusations it imposed unfair contract conditions to allow them to sell iPhones.

The Paris commercial court also fined Apple eight million euros in its ruling, issued earlier this month.

Apple told AFP it would appeal the ruling, which concerns its contracts with France's main mobile network operators more than a decade ago, when the competition and consumer protection authority, the DGCCRF, looked at the conditions the US tech giant imposed to sell iPhones.

The court took issue with clauses that required operators to sell a certain number of iPhones and fixed their retail prices.

Apple also oversaw the use of its products and trademarks in advertising by the operators, and us

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