Telecom Management in Emerging Economies

Mr. Murali Krishna Medudula is presently doing his doctoral work at IIT Delhi in the area of Mobile Data Security. In the past he has been associated with various organizations such as Aditya Birla Group (Transworks) and Wipro Technologies. He worked at a Sr. Executive level as the Bid Manager for Asia-Pacific region in Wipro Technologies. He was the Head Faculty and Knowledge Partner in the Ace Academy, Avikar Educational and Cultural Society before joining as the research scholar at IIT Delhi. He holds B.Tech degree in Information Technology from CBIT, Hyderabad and MBA degree from IIT Delhi. His research areas include Telecommunication Policy and Regulation, Consumer Behaviour, and Technology absorption & adoption issues. He actively took part in organizing and attending several workshops and conferences in the areas of marketing, telecommunication technology and management. He can be reached at murali.iitphd@gmail.comDr. Mahim Sagar is faculty at IIT Delhi. He works in the areas of marketing and telecommunication policy. His research has been published in leading international journals and as well as in public media. He has developed a unique concept on Ethical Positioning Index and has worked in the area of aware consumer and informed choice. In telecom area, he has focused on policy issues, MVNO, OTT as well as telecom market models. He is the recipient of Teaching Excellence Award at IIT Delhi. He can be reached at mahim@dms.iitd.ac.in / mahimsagar@gmail.comRavi Parkash Gandhi is presently doing his doctoral work and is a part-time research scholar at IIT Delhi. He has been associated with various institutes of reputation like National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra and Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. He has several journal and international conference publications to his credit and has rich experience in regulatory, licensing, policy and strategy of telecom sector apart from having an experience in management of large-size mobile and fixed line telecom networks. He currently works as the Chief Regulatory Officer (CRO) at Bharti Airtel Limited and also serves as Chairman of the Strategy & Policy Committee of Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). He is also member of GSMA's Chief Policy& Regulatory Officer Group (CPROG) and Spectrum Strategy and Management Group (SSMG). He had been part of Government of India as a member of civil services (Indian Telecommunication Service) during a major part of his carrier (1993-2007) where he had served in various capacities such as Public Policy, Telecom Licensing, License Enforcement, Business Head, Project Management, Installation and Commissioning of Telecom Networks, both fixed line and mobile network. One of the major contributions includes setting up Telecom Enforcement, Resources and Monitoring Cells in Department of Telecommunication. He can be reached at ravi.p.gandhi@gmail.com