{"id":1015681,"date":"2026-06-19T10:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015681"},"modified":"2026-06-19T10:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:42:54","slug":"coai-appoints-airtels-rahul-vatts-as-chairperson-jios-ravi-gandhi-as-vice-chairperson-for-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/19\/coai-appoints-airtels-rahul-vatts-as-chairperson-jios-ravi-gandhi-as-vice-chairperson-for-2026-27\/","title":{"rendered":"COAI appoints Airtel&#8217;s Rahul Vatts as Chairperson, Jio&#8217;s Ravi Gandhi as Vice-Chairperson for 2026-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], June 18 (ANI): The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) on Thursday announced a new leadership team for 2026-27, appointing Bharti Airtel&#8217;s Group Chief Regulatory Officer Rahul Vatts as Chairperson and Reliance Jio Infocomm&#8217;s Chief Regulatory Officer Dr Ravi P Gandhi as Vice-Chairperson. <\/p>\n<p>The appointments were announced during COAI&#8217;s Annual General Body Meeting for the financial year 2025-26, where members reviewed developments in the telecom sector and discussed priorities for strengthening India&#8217;s digital communications ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], June 18 (ANI): The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) on Thursday announced a new leadership team for 2026-27, appointing Bharti Airtel&#8217;s Group Chief Regulatory Officer Rahul Vatts as Chairperson and Reliance Jio Infocomm&#8217;s Chief Regulatory Officer Dr Ravi P Gandhi as Vice-Chairperson. The appointments were announced during COAI&#8217;s Annual General Body Meeting for the financial year 2025-26, where members reviewed developments in the telecom sector and discussed priorities for strengthening India&#8217;s digital communications ecosystem.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015681","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=1015681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015687,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015681\/revisions\/1015687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}