\"I'll be joining COAI very soon. It's though a challenging job,\" Lt Gen (retired) Kochhar told ETTelecom.
Mathews is expected to head back to the United States.
Mathews joined COAI in April 2010, and in eventual, many controversies surrounded the Delhi-based group in which it had come at odds with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).
Kochhar, a former top army official, is also a defence analyst and an industry veteran, who is on board of various public and private sector institutions such as IIT Delhi and Bits Pilani.
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