Bharti Airtel has appointed Abhay Savargaonkar as its Chief Technology Officer for India operations. He will also be on the company's managing board. Abhay has been at Airtel for over a decade and is currently the Chief of Network Operations. He has held various senior leadership roles covering all network verticals, including leading the 3G planning and deployment, quality, network planning and being the CTO of mobile business when it was a standalone business. The new CTO comes in a time when telecom companies are looking at deploying multiple technologies to meet the challenges of offering data services.

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