{"id":1031599,"date":"2026-08-28T07:16:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031599"},"modified":"2026-08-28T07:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:50:50","slug":"french-telco-iliads-core-profit-rises-2-on-italy-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/28\/french-telco-iliads-core-profit-rises-2-on-italy-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"French telco Iliad&#8217;s core profit rises 2% on Italy strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French telecom operator Iliad posted a 2.2% rise in its half-year core profit on Thursday, buoyed by strong performance in Italy. <\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and after leases, or EBITDAaL, were \u20ac2 billion ($2.3 billion) \u200cin the \u2060first half \u2060of 2026. <\/p>\n<p>It reported consolidated revenue of \u20ac5.24 billion for the six-month period, up 3% \u200bfrom a year ago. Revenue in France rose 1.5% to \u20ac3.32 billion, Italy posted a \u200b10.2% jump to \u20ac665 million and Poland grew 3.5% to \u20ac1.26 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French telecom operator Iliad posted a 2.2% rise in its half-year core profit on Thursday, buoyed by strong performance in Italy. The company&#8217;s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and after leases, or EBITDAaL, were \u20ac2 billion ($2.3 billion) \u200cin the \u2060first half \u2060of 2026. It reported consolidated revenue of \u20ac5.24 billion for the six-month period, up 3% \u200bfrom a year ago. Revenue in France rose 1.5% to \u20ac3.32 billion, Italy posted a \u200b10.2% jump to \u20ac665 million and Poland grew 3.5% to \u20ac1.26 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031610,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031599\/revisions\/1031610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}