TABLE-India's MphasiS Oct-Dec net more than doubles yr/yr

Jan 31 (Reuters) - Three months ended Dec. 31.
(versus the same period a year earlier, in million rupees
unless stated)

Net profit 658.6 vs 259.5

Total income 4,470.9 vs 2,737.7

NOTE: MphasiS Ltd (MBFL.BO), majority owned by U.S. firm
Electronic Data Systems Corp EDS.N, is a software and
back-office services provider.

The year ago numbers exclude EDS India.

EDS owns about 61 percent of MphasiS after buying a
majority stake for $380 million in 2006 and then completing the
merger of its Indian arm with MphasiS last year.

A Reuters poll had forecast a net profit of 756 million
rupees on revenue of 6.4 billion rupees.
($1=39.4 rupees)
(Reporting by Rina Chandran in MUMBAI; Editing by Ranjit
Gangadharan)