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Anyone that many like to describe as “troublemaker telecom” does not seem ready to return to the forefront. While emerges the final straight for the bill “Establishment and the Internet” to fight against piracy of intellectual works on the Internet, Xavier Niel, majority shareholder of Iliad, took the teeth and jaws says, In an interview with the magazine Capital released Thursday, Free take a position against this text. To cultivate its image as an agitator to users? Without doubt, but not only. “Our summer will studious,” said Xavier Niel, who wants to fire on all fronts, fibre optic mobile telephony via the Internet and P2P or financing of public television.
Haro on the law  Hadopi?
On the law Hadopi first. Particularly unpopular, the bill defines memory for the establishment of an independent authority to enforce the principle of graduated response, which provides for the establishment of surveillance networks, entrusted to bodies sworn. A systematic tracking the illegal downloading not satisfy everyone’s taste.
“We first want to fight against the law Hadopi, which creates a High Authority to fight against piracy on the Internet. A body intended to give blows on the fingers of French, “said Xavier Niel. “Economically, this has no impact on us, but some of its provisions seem to us freedoms. For what emerges, despite the opposition of the National Commission on Information and freedoms, the Council of State and the European parliament is indeed the foliage systematic our subscribers, “- it.
From fiber and mobile
On several occasions, Niel said that an operator had intended to liaise on the subscriber network, and not to provide its own content. Once again, it drives the nail in assimilating exclusivity agreements negotiated by some of its competitors of “tying”. Orange claims that it would be a shame to invest billions of euros in networks for Google and Microsoft will realize their margins. But we live very simply by connecting the homes. ”
According to him, Free now pay 120 euros per year per subscriber to reach the terminal potion of the local loop. Therefore, investments necessary for the deployment of fibre, a sum estimated at between 1000 and 1500 euros per household, is perfectly justified: “redeem his apartment for eight years of rent, this is a good deal,” jokes-t-il , Before assuming that the initial objective of fiber coverage on Paris (70% of the capital by 2009) is still on the agenda.
On the motive, finally, Niel no secret of his ambitions: “to create an operator three, four, five or even ten times cheaper than other” on the premise that a mobile network costs much less expensive to deploy that an infrastructure of fixed telephony, and yet the amounts charged by mobile operators are significantly greater than those practiced in the field of ADSL.
Finally, Niel protests against the project that the turnover of operators would be taxed to the tune of 0.9% for France Televisions finance a private advertising resources. “In France, on ponctionne sectors that work for the benefit of those who are struggling. It is bizarre, coming from a liberal as our president. It did not have the courage to increase the fee, but it is the consumers who pay with the illusion that this is not the State ponctionne, “he says, joined on this point by the majority of its competitors.
Following the acquisition of Alice, Free should be able to pass the bar four million subscribers by the end of the year, confirming its place in the top three suppliers of Internet access french, the moment when all indicators agree that the market growth of ADSL will slow down. A envied and enviable position, which will undoubtedly Iliad and Xavier Niel voice on the hot topics of the season.