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RCom Q2 profit misses estimate

A man opens the shutter of a shop painted with an advertisement of Reliance Communications in Mumbai, India, November 3, 2015. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Reliance Communications Ltd, India's fourth-biggest mobile phone carrier by subscribers, saw quarterly profit miss estimates as it lagged bigger rivals in the number of customers using its data services, and made lesser money from individual users.

The company, controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani, said its total net profit in the second quarter rose to 1.56 billion rupees, from the 1.53 billion rupees it earned last year.

Analysts, on average, were expecting a profit of 1.84 billion rupees, as per Thomson Reuters data.

For the quarter ended Sept. 30, RCom said it had 37.2 million customers who used its connection to surf the Internet, compared to 51 million at Bharti Airtel, India's top telecom carrier.

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Telecoms companies in India are leaning heavily towards data subscriptions to spur growth, as call rates get cheaper, making it tougher to keep margins up.

For the September quarter, average revenue per customer, a key measure for telecoms companies, came in at 138 rupees for RCom, while Bharti Airtel's average revenue per user stood at 193 rupees.

Total revenue at RCom, which agreed to buy Russian conglomerate Sistema's Indian mobile phone business earlier this week, came in at 53.24 billion rupees. Last year, the company's revenue was 52.87 billion rupees.

(Reporting by Nivedita Bhattacharjee in Mumbai; Editing by Sunil Nair)