Free is teaming up with Qiara, a French start-up founded by a former member of the house. The telecom operator's 7.4 million Internet subscribers will be able to benefit from a reduction on Qiara remote monitoring products and services.

At the head of this young company, we find a former general manager of Iliad, Alexis Bidinot, who left the group in 2020 with a handful of engineers and employees. The shareholder of the telecommunications group, Xavier Niel, bet on the young company to the tune of 14 million euros.