{"id":1046497,"date":"2026-11-03T07:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046497"},"modified":"2026-11-03T07:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:51:06","slug":"gsma-re-elects-bharti-airtels-gopal-vittal-as-chair-until-december-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/03\/gsma-re-elects-bharti-airtels-gopal-vittal-as-chair-until-december-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"GSMA re-elects Bharti Airtel&#8217;s Gopal Vittal as chair until December 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The GSMA\u2019s board of directors has re-elected Bharti Airtel\u2019s Executive Vice Chairman Gopal Vittal as the association\u2019s chair for the upcoming 2027-2028 term, until December 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Vittal has served on the GSMA Board for 10 years, including as chairperson since 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs GSMA Chair, he oversees the strategic direction of the organisation, which represents the world\u2019s mobile operators and companies in the broader mobile ecosystem,\u201d the London-headquartered telco association said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The GSMA\u2019s board of directors has re-elected Bharti Airtel\u2019s Executive Vice Chairman Gopal Vittal as the association\u2019s chair for the upcoming 2027-2028 term, until December 2028. Vittal has served on the GSMA Board for 10 years, including as chairperson since 2025. \u201cAs GSMA Chair, he oversees the strategic direction of the organisation, which represents the world\u2019s mobile operators and companies in the broader mobile ecosystem,\u201d the London-headquartered telco association said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1046497","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\/1046497","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046507,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046497\/revisions\/1046507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}