“There I walk on the Moon!” In front of the senators on March 22, Xavier Niel frankly did not keep his cool, after a question from Senator LR de Ain Patrick Chaize, during his hearing in the Senate Economic Committee. The businessman was questioned about Free’s promise not to increase the prices of its offers, despite the widespread inflation among all operators, and about the reality of that promise.
“Happy to pity you”
“Are you telling me ‘raise your prices’? You told me ‘you are charging extremely low prices, too low’. […] It is part of our strengths, of what we bring to the French,” Xavier Niel responded vindictively, to say the least, before threatening to leave the room at the reactions of the elected officials present during his hearing.
Despite this tirade, Xavier Niel continued to respond to the senators for almost an hour, referring in particular to the dismantling of the ADSL network, which is based on the telephone network (copper) and which must disappear definitively by 2030.
A term too far in the eyes of Xavier Niel, recalling that third-party operators (BFMTV belongs to the Altice group, like SFR) must remunerate the incumbent operator Orange for ADSL customers, now a minority.
Source: BFM TV
