V&D Confers Lifetime Achievement Award to RS Sharma

The telecom Person of the Year award was given to enablers of indigenous 4G stack.

Koo social media platform bags the Voice&Data Pathbreaker of the Year Award for 2022.

Voice&Data, India’s oldest and leading communication magazine, presented the prestigious Telecom Leadership Award for 2022 at the 22nd edition of its flagship Telecom Leadership Forum (TLF) on 19th April 2023 at the Shangri-La, New Delhi.

The Voice&Data 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 award recognises the outstanding commitment and work done by TCS, C-DoT, Tejas, and the public sector telecom service provider BSNL for their vision and determination to make it possible for India to complete the testing and reach the threshold of the launch of the Indian 4G stack for digital communications.

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.

The TLF also saw the presentation of the V&D Excellence Awards for the year 2022 in 19 categories. The awards were presented to companies and industry associations, including Reliance Ji, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, NTT GDC and CI, AT&T Global Network Services India, Tata Communications, Infinity Labs, Tata Tele Business Services, and associations Telecom Sector Skill Council and Digital Infrastructure Providers Association for their initiatives in different aspects of business, including processes, infrastructure, networking, customer service, security, skilling, enterprise solutions, and innovation. The award is an industry recognition based on nomination and through an internal evaluation process of the V&D team.

The TLF was attended by over 200+ technology and business decision-makers and policymakers across telecommunication, enterprise, start-ups, academia, and the influencer ecosystem.