"I only do one thing: telecoms."
Xavier Niel, the jack-of-all-trades of French tech and the media, swears to anyone who wants to hear him that his business is telephony.
And we must recognize that year after year, it constitutes a small empire which goes up, which goes up towards the summits.
At the rate of one or two acquisitions each year - it has just launched a takeover bid on the Polish operator Play and its fifteen million customers - Iliad, the parent company of Free, has become a small mobile giant in Europe, no longer very far from the former public operators, Orange, Deutsche Telecom, Telefonica ...
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His boss, often described by his competitors as a troublemaker, a man of blows, imposes himself year after year as an industrialist knowing how to make his way.
In its own way.
Often the last to enter a market controlled by wealthy operators, he attacks oligopolies by slashing prices - this is the case in France and Italy - or by buying companies like the Polish Play which is advancing with a strategy
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