Aircel CEO resigns

MUMBAI: Maxis chief executive officer Sandip Das will now head Aircel Limited’s senior management team following the exit of Jagdish Kini.

Das recently joined Aircel board as director-in-charge for Indian operations. Kini put in his papers citing personal reasons.

“We have a strong management team on the ground in all departments to ensure that the company does not miss a beat through this transition. Sandip, given his extensive knowledge of India, would help oversee the operations and guide the team through this period,” said Dato’ Jamaludin Ibrahim, Maxis Group CEO.

“We have begun our search for the new Chief Executive Officer and other national positions in marketing, customer service and so on. We are confident that in the next few weeks, along with the existing senior management team at Aircel, we would have built a strong India-based top management team that will work towards making Aircel a formidable telecommunications service provider,” said Das.

Aircel is part of Maxis Communications Berhad, Malaysia, and operates in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and North East with a GSM subscriber base of just over 5 million. It had recently started services in Assam, North East, Jammu & Kashmir, Orissa, West Bengal, Bihar and Himachal Pradesh.

Aircel bagged 14 new Unified Access Service Licenses (UASL) from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in 2006 to start GSM cellular services in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, Delhi, Kolkata, Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West), Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Kerala and Mumbai.

Aircel has also obtained the nod from DoT to provide International Long Distance (ILD) and National Long Distance (NLD) telephony services.

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