Six Indians among global top 100 telecom leaders
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Six Indians among global top 100 telecom leaders
Mumbai: After surpassing China to become the world's fastest growing telecom market, Indian telecom industry has got another news to smile. In its annual list of Top 100 business leaders from telecom industry across the world, Global Telecom Business magazine has put six Indian telecom leaders. The main point to focus in the list is that the magazine ranks Tata Communications N Srinath ahead of Sunil Mittal in list of global telecom power list. The list also includes Tata Communications COO (Chief Operating Officer), Vinod Kumar at the 60th position. Global Telecoms said, "As an executive in the technology end of one of India's leading industrial empires, N Srinath was given the job in 2002 of taking over the former state-owned VSNL (Videsh Sanchar Nigam), which once owned a monopoly in the country's international telecoms connections. He has transformed VSNL into a true international operation, putting Tata's $29 billion might into taking over networks such as Teleglobe and Tyco Global Networks so that it now has a presence in Europe and North America - just the countries whose high-bandwidth connections into Indian outsourcing operations. With Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a software company, in the group, he has a head start and now poised for further global investments." The list is headed by Rob Conway, CEO and Board Member of the GSM Association, followed by Randall Stephenson, Chairman, CEO and President of AT&T and Ivan Seidenberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon. The other Indians in the top 25 are Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises (18), Punit Garg, President and CEO, Reliance Globalcom (21) and Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks (25).

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