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Communications industry waits almost 12-months to know their ranking in India based on financial performance through V&D100 Volume 1&2, the most coveted industry survey, and later sweeps the V&D100 awards for their accomplishments. Telecom Person of the Year 2007, Emerging Company of the Year and Technovator of the Year nominated by the industry and finalized by a Jury meet, and communication companies, who have done tremendously well in their specific segments, were recognized at the V&D100 Awards ceremony that was thronged by the who's who of the industry.

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani, chairman, Reliance Communications, is the VOICE&DATA Telecom Person of the Year 2007.

Nripendra Misra, chairman of TRAI, handed over the award to AN Sethuraman, group president, corporate affairs, Reliance ADA Group, as Anil Ambani was not able to attend the ceremony in the national capital.

Anil Ambani was presented the award in recognition of his leadership, vision, and entrepreneurial skills, with which he made Reliance Communications one of the country's top mobile service companies. His leadership qualities steered Reliance Communications into the top telecommunication player in the CDMA technology with around 28 mn users. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world's largest next generation, IP-enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 150,000 km of fiber optic cable systems in India, the US, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific region. He designed the Falcon project for solving India's bandwidth problem. He also led his team in planning and launching unprecedented innovative schemes such as '1-day recharge' and 'one world one number roaming'.

 The VOICE&DATA "Telecom Person of the Year" award is presented every year to a personality who has played a key role for the growth of the Indian telecom industry, taking it to greater heights. The selection process, which took more than two months, started with nominations from the industry. The eight-member jury for selecting the winners comprised of eminent professionals led by DPS Seth, ex-CMD of BSNL, and ex-member TRAI. The other members of the jury were SD Saxena, director, Finance, BSNL; CS Rao, chairman, Communications Convergence Committee, Assocham; Mukund Rajan, director, Tata Teleservices;  SC Khanna, secretary general, AUSPI; Sunil Gujral, EVP & CTO, Quatrro BPO Solutions; Amitabh Singhal, director general, ISPAI; and Prasanto K Roy, chief editor, CyberMedia.