(Reuters) - Idea Cellular Ltd reported a 57.2 percent jump in quarterly profit as mobile phone carriers benefit from fewer competitors in the world's second-largest mobile phone market after a long price war.
Idea, India's third-biggest mobile phone operator by users and revenue, said on Monday consolidated first-quarter profit was 7.28 billion rupees ($120.8 million), up from 4.63 billion rupees a year earlier.
Analysts had expected that Idea, part of India's Aditya Birla conglomerate and nearly a fifth owned by Malaysia's Axiata , to earn 6.29 billion rupees.
(Reporting by Nivedita Bhattacharjee in Mumbai; Editing by Prateek Chatterjee)
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