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

Can Iliad Succeed in the US Market?

A topic that I’ve been following closely over the summer despite a relatively lackluster press coverage in non-French speaking media is the attempted bid by Iliad on T-Mobile US. This is interesting to me for a number of reasons,

The revolution is not where you might think…

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

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…

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

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

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

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