A Paris court fined the French subsidiary of U.S. app-based ride service Uber 100,000 euros ($128,000) on Thursday for fraudulent business practices.

The company was fined after it supposedly advertised its paid transportation service UberPop as a car pool, according to Reuters.

UberPop, which was launched in 2013 in Paris, links private drivers with passengers, The service, called a "ride sharing solution" by Uber, is now available five other French cities.

The court ordered that Uber post Thursday's ruling on its websites.

The San Francisco-based company said in a statement that it will continue to operate UberPop while it appeals parts of the decision.

"This decision does not call into question the service," Uber France CEO Thibaud Simphal told Reuters. "They just have to set the conditions in which we can do it."

German courts have banned UberPop and the company's low-cost limousine pick-up service UberBlack, claiming their drivers don't comply with German law for the commercial transport of passengers, according to Reuters.

"UberPOP is revolutionizing transport in cities and beyond by helping to create smarter cities with more transport choices," the firm said last month, according to BBC News. "Demand is so great all across the country that we expect to double in size by the end of the year and plan to bring Uber to more and more cities across Germany."

Uber is active in 43 counties and has only pulled out of Vancouver, Canada, as of press time.

The company, which was recently valued at $18 billion, has faced disputes with taxi operators and regulatory issues in many cities where it operates ever since the company started providing its services, including in San Francisco.

Taxi drivers in Paris tried to block traffic into the ity center in protest against Uber back in June.

The action was duplicated in placed like Berlin, Madrid, and London, according to Reuters.

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