Iliad is awesome. They own "Free" in France. It's the company that started offering TV + phone + broadband at 30€/month that every other company had to align with in the mid-2000s. They entered the mobile carrier market two years ago and offered something unheard of - Unlimited calls/text (to France and dozens of other countries) + a few gigs of data for 20€/month and another plan that costs 2€/month. Other carriers had to lower their costs as well. They managed to capture more than 10% of the market in 2 years.
I'm very excited to see what they'd be up to in the US; the current oligopoly needs a bit of a shake up... and I don't think there could be a better new for US consumers that Iliad entering the market. Savings for French consumers were estimated to 7B€ and a minister even said that "Free increased the purchase power of the French people by more than Nicolas Sarkozy ever did in 5 years".
I'm very excited to see what they'd be up to in the US; the current oligopoly needs a bit of a shake up... and I don't think there could be a better new for US consumers that Iliad entering the market. Savings for French consumers were estimated to 7B€ and a minister even said that "Free increased the purchase power of the French people by more than Nicolas Sarkozy ever did in 5 years".