Billionaire Chases T-Mobile, Bankrolls Free Internet Startup Most telecommunications companies don’t like the idea of a free Internet, generally preferring that we all continue paying for access through fiber and cables. But a few in the industry know that can’t last forever. One of them may be Xavier Niel, the French billionaire who in a case of extreme bet-hedging is trying to buy one of America’s biggest carriers, T-Mobile USA, while ...