Jagbir Singh
Jagbir Singh is currently Group Chief Technical Officer-Mobility Networks in Bharti Airtel Ltd since November 2001. He is responsible for strategic planning of Mobile Network, providing strategic direction, deciding the network architecture and network vision for robust and scalable mobile network of Bharti Airtel. He leads the complete Mobility network team, 3G strategy & planning team and Wimax deployment team and handles the planning, deployment, operations and maintenance of the largest GSM network in India with more than 70 + Million customers. At Bharti, he has driven the deployment of 30K Sites and 1.3 Mn Erlangs in 12 calendar month in 2007-08. In his role he is responsible for Managed Capacity & Managed Services contract finalization with Ericsson and Nokia, Contract governance, monitoring and adherence of the contract. Mr. Jagbir is spearheading the 2G & 3G networks in Bharti’s International ventures in Sri-Lanka, Seychelles and Channel Islands in UK. He is a member of the Mobility Management Board which governs the Mobility business in Bharti Airtel.
Mr. Jagbir has over 20 years of experience in the field of Telecom, having worked with Bharti’s Infotel group, Nortel (in Asia-Pac role), Lucent Technologies and in Defense Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), Govt of India. He started his professional carrier as Scientist-R&D at DRDO and moved on to Lucent technologies where he pioneered exceptional business growth in Lucent on all products – CDMA, Fixed line, Switches & GSM - while leading India team as Pre/Post Sales Technical & Pricing head. He moved on to Asia – pac role in Nortel responsible for Network solutions. Subsequently he joined Bharti in the Infotel group as CTO and was responsible for roll out strategies for new towns for fixed line, nationwide MPLS networks, international POP’s, conceptualization, assessing market potential, evaluation & deployment of DSL, nation wide DWDM, introduction of Wimax & IPTV.
Mr. Jagbir has got numerous recognitions such as World Client of the Year Award (International) from Leadership Management Inc (LMI) USA - 1999. Lucent President’s Award etc.
Mr. Jagbir holds M.PHIL/ M.TECH (Physics-Microwave) from Agra University in the year 1987.
