Tata Comm, Bharti, Reliance Comm and VNL in the Most Powerful and Influential People in the Global Telecom space

Indian Telecom story is truly impressive. India is the fastest growing country in the telecom space and India is the country which has the cheapest call rates in the world. We have more milestones in the telecom space by Indian Telecom Companies and here is one more news ascertaining the bright Indian Telecom story.

Global Telecom Business magazine which tracks Telecom Industries all over the world closely, has released this year’s Top 100 business leaders who are powerful and influential in this space – ‘GTB Power 100 for 2009′.

Top 10 powerful and Influential people in Global Telecom Space

1 Rob Conway
CEO of GSM Association and member of the board

2 Randall Stephenson
Chairman, CEO and president of AT&T

3 Ivan Seidenberg
Chairman and CEO of Verizon

4 Wang Jianzhou
Chairman of China Mobile

5 Julius Genachowski
Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission

6 Viviane Reding
European Commissioner for media and telecoms

7 César Alierta Izuel
Chairman of Telefónica

8 Srinath Narasimhan
CEO of Tata Communications

GTB says — As an executive in the technology end of one of India’s leading industrial empires, Narasimhan was given the job in 2002 of taking over the former state-owned VSNL, 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, a software company, in the group, he has a head start. Now poised for further global investments.

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