Iliad S.A. is a French provider of

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services. It is based in

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and its operations comprise fixed and mobile telephony services, prepaid phone cards and internet access providing and hosting services. The company was founded by

Xavier Niel Xavier Niel (born 25 August 1967) is a French billionaire businessman involved in the telecommunications and technology industry. He is best known as founder and majority shareholder of the French Internet service provider and mobile operator I ...

in 1990.

History

Free Mobile Free Mobile () is a French wireless service provider, part of the Iliad group. It was the fourth mobile network operator to obtain a metropolitan French 3G license in 2009. It also obtained a 4G license in 2011. Free Mobile provides wireless ...

, a subsidiary of Iliad, was launched in 2012. As of December 2013, it was France's fourth largest mobile operator, having gained a 12% share of the market. On August 1, 2014, Iliad SA publicly announced a bid to acquire a 56% stake in the United States wireless carrier

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for US$16 billion. The bid came amidst reports that competing carrier

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, owned by Japanese firm

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, was planning its own US$24 billion merger. The bid was dropped in October 2014. As of the end of 2012, the company was active in over 35 countries. In 2019, Iliad made 5.33 billion revenue.

Iliad Italia Iliad Italia S.p.A. is an Italian telephone company, part of the Iliad group. In March 2022, with 8.82 million active lines, it is the fourth mobile operator in Italy following Wind Tre, TIM and Vodafone Italy. History Iliad Italia S.p.A. w ...

, an Italian subsidiary of Iliad, was launched in

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on May 29, 2018.

Subsidiaries

* Free (France) * Free Mobile (France) *

* Play (Poland) and its subsidiaries, including Virgin Mobile (Poland) *

UPC Poland UPC Polska ( en, UPC Poland) is Iliad's telecommunications operation in Poland. It is one of the largest provider of broadband internet, digital television, telephony and mobile services (as an MVNO based on Play's network) in Poland. It was founde ...

* eir (Ireland) *

Scaleway Scaleway (previously Online SAS or Online.net) is a French Cloud computing and web hosting company, founded by Xavier Niel in 1999 and a majority owned subsidiary of the Iliad group. The company provides physical dedicated servers and cloud com ...

(previously Online SAS or Online.net)

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* Telecommunications companies of France Companies based in Paris French brands Telecommunications companies established in 1990 1990 establishments in France Companies listed on Euronext Paris {{France-company-stub

History

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