The troublemaker telecom, founded by Xavier Niel, on Friday issued a consolidated turnover of 1.075 billion euros for the first three months of the year.
The mobile soaring
The group saw its activity mainly driven by the mobile, which increased by 18.5% over the period, while fixed remains almost stable (+ 0.3%), all in a highly competitive environment.
“We have a recruitment drive on the quarter is very good with 420 000 new subscribers” Mobile, said Maxime Lombardini, CEO of Free AFP. According to the group, the Free market share in this sector is 15%.
The offer low cost Free continues to seduce and consumers are also attracted to the enlargement of the free international roaming, attractive to the holidays approach, further notes the Director General, before stressing that “business momentum is very good and it should continue.”
Competitors less fit
Iliad and closes the publication of first quarter results of the French telecom operators, which showed mixed performances.
If Free as Bouygues Telecom and Orange, see the recruitment of new subscribers grow, Numericable, SFR, in full integration phase, saw its number of subscribers drop. The latter has lost some 400,000 individuals to reach mobile customers 15.8 million, hemorrhage which took advantage competitors.
Orange has virtually stabilized its turnover in the first quarter (-1.4% to 9.67 billion euros), while Bouygues Telecom posted an activity down 2% to 1,063 billion.
The revenue of Numericable, SFR has folded it from 4.6% to 2.740 billion euros, but its return to profitability in the quarter was welcomed by the market.
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