Bharti CEO: monthly adds of 3 mln to continue

BANGALORE Oct 6 (Reuters) - Bharti Airtel Ltd (BRTI.BO), India's leading mobile phone operator, expects its monthly subscriber additions of 3 million to be unaffected by rising competition, the firm's CEO Manoj Kohli said on Tuesday.

Kohli also said Bharti would not respond to rivals' moves and had its own strategies.

"We are very clear; we will maintain, if not enhance, market leadership," he told reporters in Bangalore.

"New players have nothing but tariffs to offer," he said responding to a question about an ongoing tariff war in the Indian telecom sector. (Reporting by Sumeet Chatterjee; Editing by John Mair)