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Airtel appoints Jinesh Hegde as CEO of Sri Lanka operations

Bharti Airtel has appointed Jinesh Hegde as CEO of Sri Lanka operations. Hegde replaces Suren Goonewardene, and will report to Ajai Puri, Airtel’s Director of Market Operations (India & South Asia). Previously, Hegde was the senior VP and business head at Uninor for almost 6 years. Before that, he worked as the chief vertical officer, head of vertical business for 3 months. He also worked with Airtel as its regional business head of voice and VAS (West) for a year, before which he was the general manager of operations at Airtel for 3 years. Hegde’s predecessor Goonewardene has been re-designated as non executive chairman of Airtel Sri Lanka, where Airtel launched its services in 2009. Airtel offers mobile voice, data and enterprise solutions in Sri Lanka and claims a 3G presence of 70% within its network. Financials: Of the Rs 29,129 crores Bharti Airtel spent on spectrum acquisition during the recently concluded auction, 57% was for additional spectrum, said Bharti Airtel’s Global CFO Srikanth Balachandran during the company’s Q4-FY15 earnings conference call. The remaining 43% was spent on acquiring spectrum in the 6 circles up for renewal in 2015-16. He added that “Kerala is the only circle without our own 3G spectrum but that is covered by both FD and TD-LTE spectrum.” Other developments at Airtel: - Earlier this week, Airtel India became the number one operator whose call drop complaints (31) flooded the TRAI this year (up to 30 June), followed by Vodafone (17) , Idea Cellular (10) and…

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