Alain Bourdeau de Fontenay passed away on Jul 23, 2011. He will be remembered fondly by the academic and ICT community for his deep knowledge of the most important issues, theory, but most of all his out-of-the-box thinking. Alain not only explored the underlying features of ICT but was able to apply his extensive knowledge of an extraordinary breadth of literature and theory to the subject. Most recently he was engaged in research into industrial organization working to integrate institutional, behavioural and evolutionary economics while maintaining the useful parts of neoclassical economics. De Fontenay's expositions were often difficult to understand but they always repaid the effort to explore in depth. De Fontenay made several contributions to research, and endlessly pursued new ways of using the received tools of economic science for new applications or extensions of existing ones. He authored and edited a number of studies on the frontiers of telecommunications demand analysis.