{"id":1015530,"date":"2026-06-19T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015530"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:02:06","slug":"coai-elects-airtels-rahul-vatts-as-chair-jios-ravi-gandhi-as-vice-chair-for-fy27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/19\/coai-elects-airtels-rahul-vatts-as-chair-jios-ravi-gandhi-as-vice-chair-for-fy27\/","title":{"rendered":"COAI elects Airtel\u2019s Rahul Vatts as chair, Jio\u2019s Ravi Gandhi as vice-chair for FY27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has elected Bharti Airtel\u2019s Group Chief Regulatory Officer &amp; Director of Corporate Affairs, Rahul Vatts, as its Chairperson for FY27. <\/p>\n<p>The Delhi-based telecom industry association has also elected Reliance Jio Infocomm\u2019s Chief Regulatory Officer, Ravi Gandhi, as its Vice-Chairperson for FY27. <\/p>\n<p>Vatts, who was recently elevated to the top roles at the Sunil Mittal-driven telco, also chairs GSMA\u2019s Spectrum Policy Working Group and is a member of GSMA\u2019s Global Policy Group and Spectrum Strategy and Management Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has elected Bharti Airtel\u2019s Group Chief Regulatory Officer &amp; Director of Corporate Affairs, Rahul Vatts, as its Chairperson for FY27. The Delhi-based telecom industry association has also elected Reliance Jio Infocomm\u2019s Chief Regulatory Officer, Ravi Gandhi, as its Vice-Chairperson for FY27. Vatts, who was recently elevated to the top roles at the Sunil Mittal-driven telco, also chairs GSMA\u2019s Spectrum Policy Working Group and is a member of GSMA\u2019s Global Policy Group and Spectrum Strategy and Management Group.<\/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-1015530","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\/1015530","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=1015530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015531,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015530\/revisions\/1015531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}