Satya Gupta has joined Sterlite Technologies from BT Global Services, where he worked as
chief regulatory advisor and director Govt. Affairs for India & SAARC,
dealing with regulatory, licensing, public policy, security, competition and government
affairs, for more than 5 years.

Gupta will be handling
the ambitious project of FTTH, to create a Bandwidth Factory in India to make
it easier, faster and cost-effective for the service providers to provider
superfast broadband access to their customers.

When contacted, Gupta has confirmed the development. Though
I am joining Sterlite Technologies, I will have advisory role at BT Global
Services,” Gupta added.

Recently,
Sterlite Technologies received a Rs 114 crore contract from the state-run
mobile service provider BSNL for setting up broadband network. The company will
install and commission the system by the end of FY’13 and will manage this
network for seven years thereafter.

The
system, once completed, will be capable of handling 1.6 million broadband
connections. This contract is the latest in a series of new orders worth about
Rs 560 crore that Sterlite has bagged since July 1, 2011.

Before
joining BT Global Services, Gupta worked worked as principal advisor with the Telecom
Regulatory Authority of India at the level of additional secretary to the Govt.
of India and headed the Fixed Network Division incl. Interconnection, IN, IPLC,
ILDO and NLDO.

 

Earlier Gupta
headed Converged Network Division dealing with Regulatory, Technical and
Economic aspects of Data Networks and Services including VOIP, Internet
Services, IPv6, Broadband, e-Governance, Internet Governance, QOS and NGN.

 

Gupta was
also a member of various task forces of Government dealing with implementation
of broadband, e-Governance, internet governance, broadband over power lines and
IPv6.

By Baburajan
K
[email protected]