Vodafone Idea assigns Jagbir Singh as CTO

Vodafone Idea has selected Jagbir Singh as its new Chief Technology Officer. He is replacing Vishant Vora who left the organisation after a decade-long stint.

The focus of Jagbir Singh will be network upgradation and expansion especially in priority 16 circles where the telco wants to gain new subscribers.

Prior to this, Jagbir was the Group Chief Technology Information Officer at Smartfren Telecom, Indonesia. He was responsible for Network, IT /digital platforms and enterprise business.

Prior to that, he worked as the Group Chief Technology Officer of Reliance Jio and helped it launch 4G services in the country. Before that Singh was working with Samsung, and had previously worked with Airtel for about a decade.

"Following our announcement of Vishant's leaving. I am glad to inform you that Jagbir Singh will be joining us as Chief Technology Officer," CEO and MD Ravinder Takkar said in an internal note.

"Jagbir is a highly experienced telecom technology professional with over 30 years’ experience across India and South East Asia where he has been Group CTO with different telecom operators. He has led technology platforms across 4G LTE, 3G/2G, Data center, Open RAN, IP/MPLS, CDN, NFV/SDN, OSS/BSS for mobile, fixed line and enterprise networks," Takkar said.

He also added, "Jagbir is a very well-known Technology Leader and brings considerable credibility, reputation in the industry and deep operational expertise."