(Compares results with estimates, adds Q2 details)
July 21 (Reuters) - Rogers Communications Inc RCIb.TO , Canada's biggest wireless provider by subscribers, posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit as it added more postpaid wireless and internet subscribers.
Rogers added 65,000 postpaid wireless subscribers in the second quarter. Postpaid customers typically use more expensive devices and pay more for service than prepaid subscribers.
The company also signed up 12,000 landline internet and 5,000 landline phone accounts, but lost 23,000 television subscribers.
The major cable and media company is dealing with heightened competition in wireless while pitching for its internet services as the anchor product for households drifting away from landline telephones and cable television.
The company's net income rose 8.5 percent to C$394 million ($302 million), or 76 Canadian cents per share, in the quarter ended June 30, from a year earlier.
On an adjusted basis, Rogers earned 83 Canadian cents per share, 2 cents above the average analyst estimate, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
The Toronto-based company's revenue rose 1.5 percent to C$3.46 billion, slightly missing analysts' estimate of C$3.47 billion. ($1 = 1.3062 Canadian dollars)