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Bharat Bhatia
President ITU-APT Foundation of India Chairman ITU-R working group on Private 5G Chairman APT Task group on Public safety
In last 47 years, Bharat has worked for the industry and government - in India and abroad, gaining and sharing valuable experience across sectors and geographies. He has worked as a spectrum regulator in India, as the industrial development in charge of India’s computer and telecom Industries, as head of international spectrum team at Motorola (India) and Motorola (Singapore). He has managed TEMA (Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association India) as its President, Association of Telecom industries of Singapore (ATIS) and has been leading the ITU-APT Foundation of India as its President for the last five years.
Mr. Bhatia is also the Chairman of the ITU group constituted to study the specific applications of 5G in Industries, enterprises and verticals.
Mr Bhatia is a former officer of the IRRS (Indian Radio Regulatory Service) and worked as a senior regulator with Ministry of Communications and Ministry of Industry for 22 years and helped in crafting policies for opening up of telecom sector for private investment in 80s and 90s, including the first ever GSM metro licenses through a beauty contest in 1992 designed by him. He was also a key architect of India’s first ever National Frequency Allocation Plan (NFAP) in 1981 and the first ever published NFAP in 2000.
Earlier he chaired the ITU group on Public Safety and Disaster Relief communications - PPDR working group under the ITU-R study group on 5G as well as the APT Task Group on PPDR. He is globally know as Mr. PPDR, a term that he helped coin in the year 2000 at World Radio Conference in Istanbul. Earlier Mr. Bhatia was also President of TEMA (Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association of India) where he helped setting up India’s Telecom Export Promotion Council and lead many delegations to countries around the world promoting India’s telecom exports. He was also the Vice President of Association of Telecom Industries of Singapore (ATIS) when he was working with Motorola in Singapore.
Mr. Bhatia is actively participating in various ITU meetings and has attended all World Radio Conferences during the last 20 years. Mr. Bhatia was the key originator of ITU World Radio Conference Resolution (WRC) 646 on PPDR approved at WRC-2003. He was also the key originator of the WRC Agenda under which Resolution 646 on PPDR was successfully revised to include 700 and 800 MHz bands at the WRC-15. He is well known as a global speaker on spectrum and policy issues in the telecom sector and has spoken at global conferences in more than 30 countries.
Mr. Bharat Bhatia holds a B. E. degree from University of Delhi in Electronics and Telecommunications and is a fellow member of IETE, the Institution of Electronics & Telecommunications Engineers. He did his Foundational Course from Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in 1976. Mr. Bhatia has studied at various institutes and universities including National University of Singapore and George Washington University, USA.