NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's top mobile operator, said that its profit for the quarter ended June 30, 2010 stood at Rs 16.82 billion ($361.7 million), a fall of 32 per cent compared to the year-ago period.
The result includes its African operations which it acquired in June in a $9 billion deal.
In the year-ago quarter, Bharti had posted a profit of Rs 24.75 billion under international accounting standards. In the previous quarter, the profit was at Rs 20.55 billion ($461 million).
Bharti acquired the African operations in June from Kuwaiti telcoms group Zain in a $9 billion deal to become the world's fifth-biggest mobile operator.
Bharti, with about 137 million users in India controls more than 21 per cent of the market of 635 million. It is also present in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, though the operations are tiny compared with India.