{"id":1000122,"date":"2026-03-31T08:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000122"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:35:00","slug":"jios-mathew-oommen-pips-vittal-kishore-to-win-prestigious-ceo-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/31\/jios-mathew-oommen-pips-vittal-kishore-to-win-prestigious-ceo-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Jio\u2019s Mathew Oommen pips Vittal, Kishore to win prestigious \u2018CEO of the Year\u2019 award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Amid a fierce contest, Mathew Oommen, group CEO at Jio Platforms Limited (JPL), has won the \u201cCEO of the Year\u201d award, piping Bharti Airtel&#8217;s Gopal Vittal and Vodafone Idea&#8217;s Abhijit Kishore, at the fifth-edition of the ETTelecom Awards 2026, organised in the national capital on March 20, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio Infocomm, meanwhile, bagged the \u201cTelecom Network Operator of the Year\u201d award. <\/p>\n<p>Oommen is credited with driving Jio\u2019s expansion of fifth-generation (5G)-driven services nationwide, including 5G fixed wireless access (FWA), backed by ultra-affordable tariff plans offering unlimited data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Amid a fierce contest, Mathew Oommen, group CEO at Jio Platforms Limited (JPL), has won the \u201cCEO of the Year\u201d award, piping Bharti Airtel&#8217;s Gopal Vittal and Vodafone Idea&#8217;s Abhijit Kishore, at the fifth-edition of the ETTelecom Awards 2026, organised in the national capital on March 20, 2026. Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio Infocomm, meanwhile, bagged the \u201cTelecom Network Operator of the Year\u201d award. Oommen is credited with driving Jio\u2019s expansion of fifth-generation (5G)-driven services nationwide, including 5G fixed wireless access (FWA), backed by ultra-affordable tariff plans offering unlimited data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}