Free, 25 years of saga: how Tom Thumb of telecoms shook up the sector. Xavier Niel founded Free - a subsidiary of the French group Iliad, created eight years earlier.
On February 18, 1999, the founder of Free embarked on the telecommunications adventure. Unlimited Internet offers then f fanned the flames of the telecoms sector in the 1990s and early 2000s. Now, Free is one of the most successful telecoms operators in the world, with more than 100 million customers.