RJio President Sumit D Chowdhury to step down

NEW DELHI: In what could be yet another high-profile exit from the telecom company, Reliance Jio Infocomm President Sumit D Chowdhury has resigned from the teleco in order to pursue other entrepreneurial interests.

It should be noted that the company's managing director Sandeep Das also resigned from the company to move into a consultant role for the group's retail business while the chief of human resources, Steve Correa, also left the company last year.

In March last year, the company's head of NEW DELHI: In what could be yet another high-profile exit from the telecom company, Reliance Jio Infocomm President Sumit D Chowdhury has resigned from the teleco in order to pursue other entrepreneurial interests.

innovation, Arvind Rao, had also quit. Rao, who co-founded value-added services provider OnMobile Global, has now come up with his new venture - a mobile tariff comparison and recommendation service called BillBachao - in partnership with Vodafone India's former senior vice president Jonathan Bill.

Reliance Jio, the telecom unit of Reliance Industries, is yet to launch its 4G services. Having won the spectrum in 2010, the company today holds 1800 MHz spectrum across 14 circles and 2300 MHz in 22 circles but has inordinately delayed the launch.

Chowdhury had joined Reliance Jio in September 2012 and worked as the chief information officer of the company for a year before moving into a business leadership role, where he was working towards defining and setting up the company's enterprise business.