{"id":70860,"date":"2016-06-04T00:42:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T16:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/inmarsat-hires-managing-director-for-india\/"},"modified":"2016-06-04T00:42:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T16:42:47","slug":"inmarsat-hires-managing-director-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/inmarsat-hires-managing-director-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmarsat Hires Managing Director for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 06-03-2016] <b>Inmarsat<\/b> has appointed Gautam Sharma as managing director to head its operations in India. Sharma joins Inmarsat having most recently held a series of senior international positions with telecommunications equipment and services company <b>Huawei<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Inmarsat is the only government-authorized Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) provider in the Indian market. The operator has signed an agreement to partner with Indian state-owned telecommunications company <b>Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited <\/b>(BSNL) to distribute its fourth generation, L-band voice and data services within the Indian market. One of the first priorities for Sharma will be to work closely with BSNL to strengthen their partnership and open a new gateway that will support the anticipated increase in Indian-based end-users of Inmarsat\u2019s services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe firmly believe that satellite communications can play a significant part in helping India\u2019s connectivity. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a strategic vision around Digital India and we believe there is a vital role for satellite communications to play within that project and beyond,\u201d said Sharma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 06-03-2016] Inmarsat has appointed Gautam Sharma as managing director to head its operations in India. Sharma joins Inmarsat having most recently held a series of senior international positions with telecommunications equipment and services company Huawei. Inmarsat is the only government-authorized Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) provider in the Indian market. The operator has signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}