As India's leading and the first telecom industry magazine, Voice&Data has been chronicling the journey of the telecom ecosystem in India since the first telecom policy was announced to open up the sector. The publication has been an industry voice, actively highlighting its achievements, underlining the challenges and advocating for policy updates and changes, playing an independent role of the fourth pillar to drive and influence factors of growth. The CyberMedia Group publication has also been motivating the industry to do more, better and innovate by recognising the leaders and trailblazers.
Keeping up with its tradition, the magazine hosted the 22nd Telecom Leadership Forum (TLF), including the V&D Telecom Leadership Award for 2022. The Telecom Person of the Awards for 2022 was conferred upon the enablers of Made in India 4G Stack jointly to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Centre for Development of Telematics or C-DoT, Tejas Networks, and BSNL. The award was received by Vimal Kumar, Vice President Network Solutions and Services, TCS; Dr R K Upadhyay, CEO, C-DOT; Dr Kumar Sivarajan, Co-founder and CTO, Tejas Networks; and Pravin Kumar Purwar, CMD, BSNL respectively on behalf of their companies.
The Pathbreaker of the Year was given to Made in India social media platform Koo as a recognition of the breakthrough initiatives for the development and launch of the Made in India social media platform. The award was received by Mayank Bidawatka, Co-Founder of the company. The Lifetime Achievement Award was conferred upon former TRAI Chairperson and NHA CEO Dr RS Sharma in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of digital communications and its applications.
The awards were decided by a Jury process chaired by Anshu Prakash, former Telecom Secretary, Government of India, and comprising telecom industry veterans and experts.
This story is from the June 2023 edition of Voice and Data.
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