According to sources Chief technology officers of telecom operators Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have resigned from their respective companies. Recently Reliance Jio Group's Chief Technology Officer Jagbir Singh had joined the company before the soft launch of 4G services. Moreover prior to this assignment, Singh was working with Samsung and had previously worked with Airtel for about a decade.
Accordingly he is moving back to Delhi but did not disclose any further details. Email sent to Reliance Jio did not elicit any reply. Furthermore Bharti Airtel's Chief Technology Officer for mobile networks, Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar has also put in his papers. When contacted, Bharti Airtel spokesperson confirmed the development.
Reports added that Mardikar has resigned to move up the ladder in his
career path. Mardikar has been with Airtel since August 2012 and hence this was
his second stint with the telecom major. Previously as per report he has served
Airtel for about a decade from 2001-2010 after quitting his job at the
Department of Telecom and he was serving as CTO of Airtel's mobile network
since January 2017.
