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Sudhir Gupta is new TRAI Secretary

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 20 2014 | 6:33 PM IST
Telecom regulator TRAI today got a new Secretary, Sudhir Gupta, ahead of it releasing the final guidelines spectrum trading and auction of CDMA radiowaves.
Gupta, a principal adviser with TRAI, has been elevated to the post of Secretary.
"He (Gupta) is now new Secretary and has assumed the charge from today," a TRAI official said.
In the past 10 years at TRAI, Gupta has a played a key role in almost all the key regulations, recommendations and directions. This include mobile number portability regulation, rules to curb pesky calls, quality of service standards.
Gupta's major works include staring with spectrum management and licensing framework which has formed the basis of new licensing regime.
He has been responsible for formulating recommendations related to spectrum auctions, 3G and later BWA spectrum auctions. These two had helped government garner over Rs 1 lakh crore.
Gupta had also worked with MTNL.

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First Published: Jan 20 2014 | 6:33 PM IST

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