Bharti Airtel Ltd , India's No.2 telecom carrier by subscribers, on Tuesday reported a better-than-expected revenue for the third-quarter, aided by 4G subscriber additions.

The company's consolidated revenue from operations was 358.04 billion rupees ($4.33 billion) for the three months ended Dec. 31, compared with 298.67 billion rupees a year ago.

Analysts, on average, had expected a revenue of 357.27 billion rupees, according to Refinitiv IBES data. (Reporting by Rama Venkat in Bengaluru; Editing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee)