{"id":945053,"date":"2025-07-10T06:11:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=945053"},"modified":"2025-07-10T06:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:48:32","slug":"coai-re-elects-vodafone-ideas-abhijit-kishore-as-chairperson-for-fy26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/10\/coai-re-elects-vodafone-ideas-abhijit-kishore-as-chairperson-for-fy26\/","title":{"rendered":"COAI re-elects Vodafone Idea\u2019s Abhijit Kishore as chairperson for FY26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has re-elected Abhijit Kishore, chief operating officer (COO), Vodafone Idea (Vi), as its chairperson for the fiscal year 2026 (FY26). <\/p>\n<p>COAI, in a statement, said that Rahul Vatts, chief regulatory officer, Bharti Airtel, will be the vice chairperson for FY26. He is also the chair of GSMA\u2019s Spectrum Policy Working Group (SPWG), a member of GSMA\u2019s Global Policy Group, as well as the Spectrum Strategy and Management Group (SSMG).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has re-elected Abhijit Kishore, chief operating officer (COO), Vodafone Idea (Vi), as its chairperson for the fiscal year 2026 (FY26). COAI, in a statement, said that Rahul Vatts, chief regulatory officer, Bharti Airtel, will be the vice chairperson for FY26. He is also the chair of GSMA\u2019s Spectrum Policy Working Group (SPWG), a member of GSMA\u2019s Global Policy Group, as well as the Spectrum Strategy and Management Group (SSMG).<\/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-945053","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\/945053","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=945053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}