Iliad increases Free sub base

French ISP Iliad Telecom ended March with 4,661,000 subscribers, up from 4,528,000 a year earlier.

The company’s Free subscriber base stood at 4,145,000, of which 22,000 migrated from its Alice brand. Ilias said Free took a record market share of 38% of new subscribers for the first quarter.

The company increased first quarter revenues to €509.8 million from €504.5 million for Q1 2010.