Jordan Telecom third-quarter net profit falls 12.5 pct

AMMAN Oct 30 (Reuters) - Jordan Telecom Group, the country's sole fixed-line operator, reported a 12.5 percent drop in third-quarter net profit, the firm said in a bourse filing on Tuesday.

Net profit for the three months ending September 30 was 21 million dinars ($29.6 million), compared with 24.1 million dinars in the same period a year ago.

The telecom group, in which France Telecom owns a 51 percent stake, saw its net income from its integrated mobile, internet and fixed line business fall 1.8 percent to 126.7 million dinars from a year ago.

($1= 0.709 dinars) (Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Helen Massy-Beresford)