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Gigabit and beyond: pricing and positioning strategies

  • While residential gigabit access has been technically feasible for years, few service providers have included it in their portfolios. It seemed highly unlikely that the customers would be willing to pay for such speeds, let alone actually perceive a change ...

Is Free about to launch 10Gb/s offers in France ?

Before we get into this, let me make one thing clear: this article is pure speculation. We have no insider information about this, neither have we talked to anyone inside Free about it. It’s very likely we’re wrong. But

Benoit Felten - March 13, 2017 - Fiber, Opinions, Tech Trends 10gig - broadband - france - free - gigabit

Is management T-Mobile USA’s layer of fat ?

There’s an article in French magazine Challenges this week about Iliad and T-Mobile. It’s entitled “How Iliad-Free bluffed the Americans” (in French). As usual with the business press, it doesn’t actually answer the question, and by and large

Benoit Felten - September 15, 2014 - Business Models, Opinions free - iliad - management - model - USA

Net Neutrality Debate à la Française

Over the Seine

Since the recent (and thankfully short lived) decision by Free to block Google’s advertising content for users of their set-top box, the French net (from government to activists) has been abuzz. Even the international tech press has commented on what

Benoit Felten - January 16, 2013 - Net neutrality, Opinions, Services france - free - google - legislation - net neutrality - pellerin - regulation

Promises, promises

The State of Kansas

Well, looks like I overpromised on my blogging. I had all these great plans for last week, and then real life and (thankfully) real work hit me in the chest like a sledgehammer.

As some of you may be aware,

Benoit Felten - January 15, 2013 - Fiber, Opinions broadband - france - free - google - google fiber - kansas - kansas city - USA - wired

Orange takes the lead on FTTH, Free and SFR pare down TV Distribution

Late last week, French regulator ARCEP published the latest numbers for French FTTH. They’re not looking particularly sexy in terms of acquisition. Not that this comes as a surprise, considering how little marketing and sales action has been happening. However,

Benoit Felten - December 4, 2012 - Opinions, Policy broadband - fastweb - france - free - ftth - iptv - marketing - orange - sales - sfr

Latency certainly matters for video viewing…

Two scientists from Akamai recently published a paper entitled Video Stream Quality Impacts Viewer Behavior: Inferring Causality Using Quasi-Experimental Designs. Now Akamai being in the business of optimizing internet traffic flows and particularly internet video flows, you’d expect the

Benoit Felten - November 13, 2012 - Net neutrality, Opinions, Policy content - free - latency - net neutrality - throttling - tolerance - youtube

Free Report: World of Fiber 2012

Fiber to the premises (FTTP) has become a major differentiator in the access market. The list of countries with significant FTTP deployment grows every year, and 2011 was no exception. Overall, however, FTTP deployment is growing far more slowly than

Benoit Felten - March 22, 2012 - Reports, Services, store adoption - deployment - free - fttp - report - world of fiber

The revolution is not where you might think…

Fr_dp

The French media have been abuzz since Tuesday following the press conference by Iliad's Xavier Niel on the launch of Free's Mobile offering. Mobile may not be the core topic for this blog but since I talked a lot about

Benoit Felten - January 13, 2012 - Business Models, Opinions, Tech Trends france - free - iliad - market - mobile - revolution

Xavier Niel on French TV

There was a feature on Xavier Niel on a French TV News show this week. Reproduced here, but it’s (obviously) all in French…

Benoit Felten - December 22, 2011 - Non classé free - iliad - profile - TV - xavier niel

Possible Free Mobile Tariffs and their Impact on the French Telecom Scene

Fr_dp The French tech internet is abuzz with rumours that Free's upcoming mobile tariffs have been unveiled (apparently by some UBS analyst?) as stated here. I don't normally post on the basis of unconfirmed information, but while very aggressive, these

Benoit Felten - September 14, 2011 - Business Models, Opinions bouygues - broadband - business model - france telecom - free - iliad - mobile - orange - sfr - tariffs

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