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Puneet Garg , CTO Enterprise at smartfren . BUSINESS on digitally transforming Indonesia , the current tech and telco trends , and the impact of COVID-19
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S tarting his career in the technology and telecommunications industry in 1991 at HCL Ltd . in India , Puneet Garg brought 27 years of experience in the industry with him when joining Smartfren . BUSINESS in 2019 as the company ’ s CTO Enterprise . “ Working at HCL Ltd . in 1991 as his first job in India after college . Following HCL Ltd . Puneet worked with a few other market leading organisations before joining Smartfren . BUSINESS in 2019 , including American Express , Astro in Malaysia , Lucent technologies in Singapore , CTO in Bharti Airtel , Board of Director and CTIO in IndosatM2 and Board of Director and CTO MyRepublic ID . Puneet has been working as a CTO & CIO and Board of Director positions bringing new technologies and solutions to our customers , primarily in domains : Telecommunications ( 1st TD LTE rollout in India ), 1st IPTV rollout in India , Wifi Hotspots , Cloud Services , Fixed Voice and IoT Platform . It is a passion of Puneet in bringing new technologies to