NEW DELHI: RN Prabhakar, who retired from the Indian Telecommunication Service a year ago, has joined as a whole-time member of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India today.

His last posting before retiring in January last year was as Advisor (Production) and Ex-officio Additional Secretary in the Department of Telecommunications. He also looked after the charge of the Member (Production), Telecom Commission.

Prabhakar has about 36 years of technical, administrative and financial experience in the telecom sector and has held various posts in the DoT. He has also served on the Boards of BSNL and Instrumentation Ltd Kota.

He has participated in several international seminars and workshops and has presented technical papers related to network security, regulation and public policy etc. He was deputed for a period of three years to Nigeria for imparting training to their telecom officers.