“For every hour that we spend at this meeting here today, Indi
a would have added 20,000 new mobile customers, and Reliance Communications alone another 4,000.”
Awards: Adjudged Telecom person of 2007 by Voice&Data; Reliance Communication was adjudged the world’s top CDMA operator at the Global CDMA Industry Achievement Awards.
Strategy: Managing the ‘all important’ license for GSM services throughout India and kickstarting the World’s Fastest and Largest Rural Infrastructure rollout covering 2,34,000 villages.
Acquisitions/Investments: Acquiring US based Yipes Holdings, Inc, tying up with Microsoft for IPTV foray in India. Anil plans to invest $5.6 billion to expand its GSM presence. Apart from this, he has already planned a capex of $2.3 billion to expand RCOM’s CDMA operations in the country.
Controversies: While the GSM operators are still fighting out for more spectrum, Anil managed to get the GSM license through a dual tech policy that allows a telecom player to offer both GSM & CDMA services in the same circle. The spectrum controversy continues.
a would have added 20,000 new mobile customers, and Reliance Communications alone another 4,000.”Awards: Adjudged Telecom person of 2007 by Voice&Data; Reliance Communication was adjudged the world’s top CDMA operator at the Global CDMA Industry Achievement Awards.
Strategy: Managing the ‘all important’ license for GSM services throughout India and kickstarting the World’s Fastest and Largest Rural Infrastructure rollout covering 2,34,000 villages.
Acquisitions/Investments: Acquiring US based Yipes Holdings, Inc, tying up with Microsoft for IPTV foray in India. Anil plans to invest $5.6 billion to expand its GSM presence. Apart from this, he has already planned a capex of $2.3 billion to expand RCOM’s CDMA operations in the country.
Controversies: While the GSM operators are still fighting out for more spectrum, Anil managed to get the GSM license through a dual tech policy that allows a telecom player to offer both GSM & CDMA services in the same circle. The spectrum controversy continues.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist)
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