Xavier Niel Wins Entrepreneur of the Year Prize

September 22, 2006

Nice video clip (French) of Xavier Niel, founder and Director of Strategy at Iliad, on the lentreprise.com web site taken at the prize ceremony. I really liked his description of successful business development. He mentions that it all starts with a bit of luck, finding something that starts to grow and the with the right people leads to something else, etc.. that assures sustained development. A real entrepreneurial strategy. Good job Niel !

Via FreeNews.


My ISP is Fantastic !

September 12, 2006

Free

Free is such an innovative player in the internet access market here in France !  Yesterday, they announced a 1 billion € 5 year plan to deploy FTTH to most parts of France. Their infrastructure will be open to competition and a new Free Foundation will offer low bandwith access, free telephone service, and digital TV to anyone in a building with FTTH access against a deposit for the set top box.  This is great news for Free subscribers and broadband entrepreneurs in France.