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Xavier Niel
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Xavier Niel mulls Millicom bid
French telecoms and media tycoon Xavier Niel, owner of Iliad Group, is considering making an…
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Xavier Niel to buy Ukraine’s Volia and Lifecell in major investment
Iliad Telecom owner Xavier Niel’s NJJ Holding investment firm is to acquire Datagroup-Volia, Ukraine’s leading fixed telecom and pay TV provider.
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Xavier Niel to acquire leading stake in Tele2
Xavier Niel, owner of Iliad Group, is to acquire a 19.8% stake in Swedish operator…
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Xavier Niel’s Iliad in fresh bid to merge Italian operation with Vodafone
Xavier Niel’s Iliad Group has made a fresh bid for the merger of its Italian…
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Xavier Niel takes stake in Belgium’s Proximus
Xavier Niel, proprietor of French and pan-European telecom group Iliad Telecom, has taken a 6%…
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Xavier Niel’s Iliad sets out plan to create European AI champion with supercomputer investment
French telecoms and media entrepreneur Xavier Niel is investing €200 million in an AI supercomputer…
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Iliad’s Niel slams Orange call for higher unbundling charges, demands faster transition to fibre
Iliad Telecom boss Xavier Niel has slammed Orange’s call for an increase in unbundling fees…
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Xavier Niel reportedly looking to invest in France’s Brut
French media entrepreneur Xavier Niel, owner of service provider Free, and sometime rival French-Lebanese businessman…
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Xavier Niel to compete with TF1 and M6 for DTT frequency
French regulator ARCOM has announced that it received three bids for its recently advertised national…
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Xavier Niel outfit asks for ‘more time’ to prepare DTT proposal
French telecom and media entrepreneur Xavier Niel’s NJJ Médias unit has asked media regulator ARCOM…
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Xavier Niel circles France’s DTT platform ahead of frequency renewals
Speculation is bubbling up in France around the possibility that telecom tycoon Xavier Niel, owner…
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Xavier Niel takes stake in Latin America’s Millicom
French telecoms and media entrepreneur Xavier Niel has taken a 7% stake in Latin America…
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Iliad founder Niel purchases surprise Vodafone stake
Xavier Niel, the founder of Iliad, has acquired a 2.5% stake in Vodafone. The stake…
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EC approves UPC Poland sale to Xavier Niel’s Play
The European Commission has approved the acquisition of Liberty Global’s Polish operation, UPC Polska, by…
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Niel and Bouygues clash over TF1-M6 merger
French telecom tycoons Xavier Niel and Martin Bouygues have clashed over the proposed merger between…
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Xavier Niel’s Iliad to acquire UPC Poland from Liberty Global
Liberty Global has reached a definitive agreement to sell 100% of its operations in Poland…
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Xavier Niel begins process of taking Free private with public offering
Iliad Telecom, which operates in France under the Free brand, has launched the public offering…
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Xavier Niel advances move to take Iliad Telecom/Free private
French service provider Iliad Telecom/Free has submitted documentation regarding its planned public offering to acquire…
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Free bounces back as Niel takes hands-on role
French service provider Iliad Telecom/Free’s full-year numbers for 2019 saw it bounce back in revenue…
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Xavier Niel consolidates control of Free
French telecom entrepreneur Xavier Niel has consolidated his control of Iliad Telecom/Free after a successful…
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Xavier Niel reportedly looking at investment in Molotov as Altice stumbles
Free founder Xavier Niel may step into the breach if French OTT TV player Molotov’s…
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Mediawan posts first full-year financials
Paris-listed production-distribution group Mediawan has posted its first full year financials. Both actual and pro…
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Xavier Niel ‘close’ to taking majority control of Eir
Xavier Niel, the French telecom entrepreneur and owner of multi-play service provider Iliad Telecom/Free, is…
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Iliad’s Niel promises new Freebox as competition bites
Iliad Telecom/Free founder Xavier Niel has promised to bring forward the launch of a new…
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Mediawan to acquire AB Group as first step in Euro-content strategy
Mediawan, the media investment consortium set up by producer Pierre-Antoine Capton, Iliad Telecom founder Xavier…
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Vivendi chief says company is not acting in concert with Xavier Niel
Vivendi CEO Arnaud de Puyfontaine offered reassurance over the weekend that Vivendi is not acting…