NEW DELHI: His is a well-known face to most of the Indian broadcasters and TV distributors - whether DTH or cable. Sunil Kumar Gupta, until now Principal Advisor (Broadcasting &  Cable Services) in the  Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), has now been appointed Secretary in the Authority.He succeeds Sudhir Gupta who retired on 31 July 2017.

SK Gupta is a gold medalist of Allahabad University and had done his graduation on “Electronics and Telecommunication” and an MBA from Delhi. He joined Indian Telecom Services (ITS) in 1983 and worked in the Department of Telecommunications in various capacities.

For the past 10 years, he has been involved in telecom licensing, regulations and its implementation.

He has dealt with issues relating to broadband, infrastructure sharing, IP addresses, licensing, FM radio and cable TV services.

He was member of various high profile committees such as “Internet Governance Working Group” constituted by Department of Information Technology, Convener of NGN Expert Committee constituted under the aegis of TRAI, Member of South Asian Telecom Regulatory Council (SATRC) and member of IPv6 focus Group constituted by DOT etc.

Sunil Gupta has served in TRAI for two terms: first from 2006 to 2011, and again since 2015