Iliad in France seems to have taken a leaf out of the Intel playbook, best illustrated by the famous comment of founder Andy Grove that “only the paranoid survive.” So as its incredible journey at its French operator Free, to virtually annex all fresh cellular customers in France for the past 5 years, begins to run out of steam – it has put in new management and new strategies to renew its efforts and retain its competitive edge. Today the growth in mobile subscriptions has hit a wall – it managed 19% penetration of the French market or 13.7 million subscribers from a standing start in 2012 – last quarter this was just an additional 130,000. And it managed this…