Iliad: The year starts slowly.

Iliad is investing in the deployment of fiber optics.Keywords: ISP Internet, Iliad Free Alice.

 The owner of Internet access providers Free Alice and publishes an annual turnover up 4.7% in line with attentes.Cette performance is lower compared to 2009.

Iliad, owner of Internet access providers and Free Alice, released its turnover Quarterly: as expected, its sales rose 4.7% to 505 million euros. The growth mainly concerns the activities of broadband to the general public who are the heart of the business group.
But growth of Iliad is lower than the first quarter of 2009. The turnover of the group, driven by the Internet market in full expansion, was then increased by 41.8%. Iliad is currently seeking to shift its subscribers Alice, bought brand deficit in August 2008, to A total of 88,000 net subscribers terminations joined Free in the first quarter of 2010, enabling him to claim more than 3.87 million subscribers in broadband. The brand posted an average revenue per broadband subscriber, excluding non-recurring items, of 36.3 euros per month (VAT), against 36.5 euros in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Work continues:
In Free, confirms that the Group's targets for 2010 will remain: to increase the subscriber base, increasing the rate of unbundling, but also deploying fiber optic and wireless network.
After obtaining his mobile phone license last year, Iliad provides cover 27% of the French population by January 2012 and launch the first commercial offers Free Mobile in the course of the year . The group is also banking on the deployment of fiber optics that will improve its offer Internet access. Iliad aims to cover fiber optic four million households in late 2012.
In exchange, about 13h, the action varies little Iliad 73.64 EUR (-0.23%).