REUTERS - Top Indian mobile carrier Bharti Airtel posted a 61 percent rise in quarterly profit, helped by less competition.
Bharti raked in 11.08 billion rupees ($184.31 million) of profit, up from 6.89 billion last year.
Analysts, on average, were expecting the company to earn 12.17 billion rupees
(1 US dollar = 60.1150 Indian rupee)
(Reporting by Nivedita Bhattacharjee in Mumbai; Editing by David Holmes)