Free Mobile

Free Mobile is a French mobile broadband company, part of the Iliad group, that provides wireless services to 9 million subscribers as of August 2014. It is the fourth mobile network company to obtain a metropolitan French national 3G license and was granted in 2011 a 4G license in the 2.6 GHz frequency band.

History

3G license

The first 3G licenses were awarded to France Telecom (now Orange) in 2000, SFR in 2000 and Bouygues Telecom in 2002. Free Mobile application has been agreed by French regulatory authority ARCEP on 17 December 2009. The license price is 240 million euros for two 5 MHz duplex bands in the 2100 MHz and 900 MHz frequency bands.

Roaming agreement

Free Mobile signed a 2G and 3G roaming agreement with Orange on 3 March 2011. 100% of the 2G traffic will go through Orange's network as Free Mobile has no 2G license.

Network deployment

Free Mobile has for legal obligation to cover 27% of the French population by January 2012, 75% by January 2015 and 90% by January 2018.

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Get Free

"Get Free" is a song by the garage rock band The Vines from their debut album Highly Evolved. The song was released in late 2002, and remains the Vines' highest charting single (#7 Billboard Modern Rock, #24 UK Singles Chart). The song was written by Vines' frontman Craig Nicholls. It was covered by "Weird Al" Yankovic in his polka medley "Angry White Boy Polka" from his 2003 album Poodle Hat. It was featured in the pilot episodes of Fastlane and Shameless, as well as the 2006 movie School for Scoundrels. The song can be heard in several video games including the introduction video for Topspin, the Nintendo DS version of Band Hero and as a playable track on Rock Band 3 and Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. "Get Free" along with "Ride" appeared in the documentary Warren Miller's Impact.

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Whereas previous Vines songs were driven by chord structure riffs, this one has Nicholls strumming the 5th and 3rd frets for the main riff. The song opens with the resounding riff, a drum-build up and then the song breaks in. However, the song does not follow a verse-chorus-verse structure, going from verse-chorus-solo-verse-bridge-middle-verse-chorus. Get Free was playing at the 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

Xavier Niel

Xavier Niel (born 25 August 1967) is a French entrepreneur and businessman, active in the telecommunications and technology industry and best known as founder and majority shareholder of the French Internet service provider and Mobile operator Iliad trading under the Free brand (France’s second-largest ISP, and third mobile operator). He is also co-owner of the newspaper Le Monde, and co-owner of the rights of the song "My Way" and owner of Monaco Telecom. He currently acts as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors & Chief Strategy Officer for Iliad.

His net worth is about $10 billion USD.

Biography

Niel started early by developing telecommunication and data services. He embarked at a young age on an entrepreneurial career. At 19, he successfully created then sold his first company, a Minitel (a French forerunner of the internet) service company. This minitel-site provided sex oriented chat services. In 1995, he invested in the first Internet Service Provider in France, World-NET, created the previous year by Sébastien Socchard, Philippe Langlois and Pierre Séguret. This company was sold the year before the internet bubble burst.