French operator Iliad reported revenues up 38.4 percent to EUR 907.2 million in the first quarter, compared to EUR 655.7 million a year earlier. Free Mobile’s revenues grew 202.1 percent to EUR 294.5 million, compared to EUR 97.5 million in the year-earlier period, when the service launched. This included EUR 256.9 million from telecom services and EUR 37.6 million from handset sales. The company added 870,000 mobile customers in the first quarter, taking the total to 6.08 million. Iliad estimates that it now has a 9 percent share of the French mainline mobile market.
Landline operations increased revenue by 10 percent to EUR 615.6 million, of which broadband accounted for EUR 613.8 million. The group added 92,000 new broadband subscribers, excluding migration from Alice, giving it around 40 percent of France’s net additions, according to its estimates. The group had 5.46 million broadband subscribers at the end of March, including 5.3 million with Free and 152,000 with Alice. Broadband ARPU rose by nearly EUR 0.40 to EUR 36 a month in the first quarter, compared to the first quarter of 2012.
