U Mobile is increasing its top level headcount with a new Deputy Chief Technical Officer and appoints a new CIO in replacement of the out going Tan Chen Sen who has been with the company for 5 years.

Neil Tomkinson who hails from MTN Next! a telecoms multinational based in South Africa which operates in 22 countries and has an annual turnover of USD14 billion, will be the Chief Information Office at U Mobile and will be responsible for leading the telco into the next phase of development.

With the increased spectrum allocation and ongoing 3G RAN share exit, U Mobile will doubling up its efforts on the network front with Woon coming on-board as DCTO. He joins the telco with two decades of related experience with companies such as Total Access Communication (Dtac) in Thailand, DigiTelecommunications, Malaysia as well as Ericsson, Malaysia. Woon will be working together with the current Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Too Tian Jen, to oversee and rollout U Mobile’s robust network expansion strategy with the goal of making U Mobile the leading telco for customer experience.