4th mobile license. "If you listen to the lobbyists you have understood nothing"

Internet operator Free is the only answer to the bidding of the state to acquire the fourth mobile license on the market by the state. Several other suitors, including the Bolloré group, the cable operator Numericable spent hand.

For Free, the stakes are high. His original contract, that of access to the internet matures. The folly of growth in recent years to calm down. Its gross margin in this market is huge. Second in market share, behind Orange (France Telecom), Free must find new sources of growth. This is in connection with the fiber part of its subscribers to make them enjoy the services of high-speed internet and inflate their average basket.

36.15 Gross Margin

After making a fortune in the business of Minitel, Xavier Niel became the thorn in oligopolies. His next challenge will be a place on the crowded mobile phone market. Orange, SFR and Bouygues share a lucrative market: the investment required to install networks are amortized and consumers are increasingly mobilo-dependent. Same number portability, the passage from one to the other operators, MVNOs, operators using these virtual networks of incumbents and rising to 4% market share, or the lower rate of intermediation, the cost operators charge when communicating from one of their subscribers to another network, do not worry beyond measure.

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Bouygues, a lobbying concrete

The entry against Free by yes. Because the reputation and facts speak for the new entrant. On the internet, it was he who was able to focus the market around its offer price of 29.90 euros base. Tomorrow, we can imagine that it seeks to capitalize on its reservoir Internet customers to offer them quadruple play offers: internet, fixed and mobile telephone and television. And especially since the market is e ncore carrier and for long . Uses of mobiles multiplien t (smartphone, allow payment instead of credit card réceptionnant TV channels ...)

Once it was clear that a fourth operator would enter the French market, the cartel of Three ( The TSF, as they are nicknamed, Everything But Free ) tried everything to delay the application. This section of the Weekly Challenges returns on this story.

The various complaints from one or the other, especially by Bouygues also delayed the arrival of two years. It is always made of it. Present at Fouquet's on the night of the presidential election, Martin Bouygues has managed to take a stand Nicolas Sarkozy last September: "" I am skeptical and reserved on the choice of a fourth operator. The lowest price is not necessarily the best. You have to see the quality of the applicants. "The president said at a meeting with parliamentarians from the majority. This has led to a lot of concern here and there , therefore unfounded.

Ich bin your lobbyist

For its part, Free was not far behind. It is the firm and associated Boury (which will also counsel SFR and Bouygues on other issues) what back task to convince parliamentarians to play the game from the opening of the mobile market in France, also strongly demanded by the European Union in the name of competition. This operator has been brought to its Board of Directors Virginie Calmels, Director of Endemol. In the city, Virginie Calmels is the companion of Francis David Cravenne advisor Estrosi, Minister of Telecom and more industry, in charge of the fourth license. Free CEO Maxime Lombardini he was responsible for bringing the gospel in good evangelist.

Although Xavier Niel hesitates him either to wet his shirt.

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In an interview with the weekly Le Poin t in September 2008, Xavier Niel promised to halve the mobile bill of French. It has long been known, promises only bind those who listen. The CEO Illiad will he speak? We'll know in a year.

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