BBC’s click on IPTV (and Free)

A fairly low-level short documentary on IPTV in France. I can't seem to embed the video, so I'll just hotlink it.

A few quick comments:

Analogies are evil: are we driving on a dedicated fast lane or reserving a

Some Fiber News to Start the New Year

A couple of interesting bits of news have trickled today (but CES is probably going to generate a whole lot more…) which I thought I would share:

The ARC, an association of landowners in France have denounced the deal they

Iliad / Free launches Freebox Revolution

In recent months I have been fairly critical of Free, a company that I long admired and suggested in the past might be a blueprint for a successful broadband operation without the legacy of past telco organisation and thinking. Not

Is Free / Iliad losing it ?

It's always very difficult to assess the true health of a company, as that's never a static proposition. In the case of Free it's made even harder by one of the very thing that makes the company atypical: it doesn't

Bouygues Telecom launches its “fiber” offer

Announced nine months ago, Bouygues Telecom's BBox Fibre offer will be available in France starting today, November 2nd. Bouygues Telecom will lease a bitstream type circuit from French cable player Numéricable to access the end-customers. After having made some news

Hadopi: Free’s (legal) rebellion

If you don't live in France you probably don't know that our insane HADOPI three-strike law is now enforced. This week the HADOPI organisation announced that they had sent the first warning letters.

In order to send these letters, they

Fiberevolution Word Cloud

Interesting results. Either I talk about Free (the company) too much or I talk about Free (the cost) too much. Probably a combination of both, considering what my last post was…

This cloud was produced with Wordle.

Edit: Note

Is Free Turning into Just Another Old Telco ?

I'm just back from a two-week trip in the US. You would not believe the number of people who talked to me and asked me about Free (Iliad) while I was there. That a French company with no activities outside

Seasonal Wrap-Up

This last week has been unbelievably busy, and I haven't been able to post on any of the topics that I thought were interesting to expand on. Since I'm leaving tomorrow morning for the mountains of Jura and since my

Bouygues Telecom to offer FTTx services over Numéricable’s network

Early this week, Bouygues Telecom, the #3 mobile player in the French market announced that they would be offering triple play FTTB services starting Summer 2010. In 2009, Bouygues Telecom launched their triple-play BBox offering over ADSL over the remnants