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France Telecom Cuts UK Staff

Ray Le Maistre writes on Light Reading:

France Telecom SA is cutting between 1,800 and 2,000 jobs in the U.K. as it converges its British mobile and broadband businesses, Orange UK and Wanadoo UK, into a single unit under the Orange brand.

The cull is part of a broader headcount reduction program unveiled in February in its 2005 annual report. Then, France Telecom said it would cut 23,000 jobs and hire 6,000 new staff worldwide for a net reduction in employees of 17,000, almost 10 percent of the global carrier's workforce.

posted by Fergie @ 5/05/2006 12:49:00 PM