Hard to compete with Free: €20 for unlimited voice, text, and 3G data

Remember when AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile last year for $39 billion, and how it kept insisting that reducing the number of national wireless carriers from 4 to 3 wasn’t a problem because the market was just so competitive ? If you want to see what real competition looks like, turn to (gasp) France, where the hugely popular Free.fr broadband provider just blew the doors off the mobile marketplace with its €20month unlimited use plan. This was a story too important to bury beneath the deluge of gadget news pouring forth from CES. Free has long been one of France’s most popular Internet providers.

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Hard to compete with Free: €20 for unlimited voice, text, and 3G data

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