Xavier Niel

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Birthday
Aug 25, 1967 (57 years old)

Xavier Niel

Known For

La banlieue, c’est le paradis
1h 29m
Movie 2025

La banlieue, c’est le paradis

In the 1960s, the suburbs were meant to be modern havens for newcomers from rural France, Portugal, Spain, North Africa, and Africa, helping rebuild post-war France. Large housing complexes symbolized this ideal, offering comfort, heating, and electricity. But by the 1980s, disillusionment set in as economic crisis, unemployment, poverty, crime, racism, and police violence took hold. Mohamed Bouhafsi tells the story of a dream that didn’t last.

War in Telecom: The Four Colours of Capitalism
1h 10m
Movie 2016

War in Telecom: The Four Colours of Capitalism

This film tells the competition in the telecommunication sector over the last years, in order to make us understand its stakes and the industrial and commercial logics. The story is told by its four main characters : Martin Bouygues, Stéphane Richard, Xavier Niel and Patrick Drahi.

Biography

French billionaire 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).

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