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Rakuten Symphony has appointed experienced telecom and IT executive Sanjay Saraswat as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of its RAN Business Unit. He is based in the Rakuten Symphony<\/a> Bengaluru office and reports to Anil Sawkar, President of the RAN BU.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Sanjay brings vast experience to the role from a career that has traversed various global markets, including the United Kingdom \u2013 where he earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge – Canada and India, where he has held a number of executive roles, including Chief Information Officer<\/a> of Reliance Globalcom. Sanjay also established RAN solutions provider Airspan\u2019s R&D centers in Mumbai and Bangalore, transforming them into key operational hubs in his capacity as VP and Head of R&D for India.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cI am very excited to bring my experience in both telecom and IT to enhance Rakuten Symphony\u2019s RAN value proposition,\u201d Sanjay<\/strong> said. \u201cFor many years, I have been impressed with Rakuten Symphony\u2019s highly impressive track record of in-house innovation, a legacy that I hope to continue in my role by developing solutions that benefit mobile network operators today and in the future.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Sanjay also put on record his admiration for Rakuten Symphony\u2019s plans to launch its Open RAN licensing program. \u201cI believe that the model has the potential to be very disruptive,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is a unique concept by telecom industry standards \u2013 it shows our clear intent of taking the lead about introducing positive disruption and new economic models to telecom.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Sanjay highlighted the importance of the evolving practices and skillsets that Rakuten Symphony\u2019s RAN Business Unit is looking to introduce.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cTraditional methodologies in R&D are changing, as are the skills needed in the RAN space,\u201d he said. \u201cThere’s a greater push towards automating the human-intensive aspects so that our intelligence can be channelled into other efforts \u2013 this is something we hope to channel. Rakuten Symphony also hopes to introduce new, cutting-edge skills into the RAN Business Unit around AI-ML specialization, mobile network architecture and algorithm development and I look forward supporting that evolution and in turn growing our portfolio.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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