BENGALURU, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Tata Consultancy Services , India's No.1 software-services exporter, reported a better-than-expected increase in third-quarter revenue.

Consolidated revenue rose to 605.83 billion rupees ($7.30 billion) in the three months to Dec. 31 from 582.29 billion rupees a year earlier, TCS said in an exchange filing.

Analysts on average were expecting revenue of 601.47 billion rupees, according to LSEG data. ($1 = 83.0100 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Sai Ishwarbharath B, Varun Vyas, and Haripriya Suresh in Bengaluru; Editing by Dhanya Ann Thoppil)