Charge comes as 5 execs top $10M in 2014 compensation
AT&T said it plans to take a $130 million charge during the first quarter tied to nearly 3,000 employees electing to retire by March 31. The company also reported that five of its top executives...
If you’re interested in making a good living, you may want to consider a career in technology. More specifically, think about becoming a software engineer.
According to the 25 Best Jobs in America 2015, a survey conducted by career, community and employment website Glassdoor, the...
Unemployment rate in telecommunications sector is a low 3.1%
The telecommunications subsector lost some 400 employees from December to January, according to the most recent tracking figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Feb. 6.
The telecommunications subsector covers people working in telephony, voice...
Undisclosed number of cuts reported across various IBM locations
Computing and technology giant IBM is reportedly cutting jobs across the organization, although the exact number appears to be in question.
An initial report from Forbes indicated the cuts could impact more than 100,000 jobs, or about...
In this edition of “Gigs”, RCRtv gives you an inside look at what it is like to be a trainee at Silicon Labs.
Max Palumbo, a field applications engineer trainee, explains what the interview and training processes are like and offers insight about the profession...
With just a simple search of job boards and postings, you can see that product test engineers are in high demand.
In this edition of "Gigs", RCRtv takes a look at a day in the life of a product test engineer at Silicon Labs and...
In this edition of “Digs”, RCRtv got a look inside the AT&T IoT "Internet of Things" Foundry in Plano, Texas.
The Plano foundry is one of five locations that AT&T has set up around the world.
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Foundry director, Craig Lee says the building was a “tired...
With the changing landscape of the wireless industry, job descriptions don't often stay the same for long. RCRtv is looking into different jobs throughout the industry to see what the hot jobs are and what it is like to do them.
With this installment of...
Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile US rumored to have pulled Softcard support
Mobile payment platform Softcard looks to be experiencing some operational challenges, as reports claim the m-payment consortium has laid off up to 30% of its staff.
According to Re/code, Softcard has let 60 employees go as...
Verizon Wireless recently held a job fair in the Rochester, N.Y., area, looking to fill up to 300 positions at a Henrietta-based call center.
According to the Rochester Business Journal, the positions include customer service and technical support and are on top of 300 new...
The last 12 months have seen big data become a versatile player in industries all across the spectrum. That trend is expected to continue in 2015 with big data increasingly mingling with the "Internet of Things."
The two titans of technology are expected to become...
The telecom workforce grew by 2,300 jobs in November 2014, according to a new U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics report, and is up some 20,500 jobs since the beginning of the year.
The BLS released its most recent Current Employment Statistics Highlights on Dec. 5....
Job cuts expected to cost $7.5M, save $20M per year
Cloud computing and mobile broadband provider Windstream announced plans to cut 350 jobs over the next two weeks in a move to “improve its cost structure and operate more efficiently.”
The cuts will include 120 positions...
Telecom infrastructure giant Ericsson announced plans to cut $1.2 billion in costs by 2017 in a move that is also expected to include an unspecified number of job cuts.
Speaking at the company’s Capital Markets Day in Stockholm, Ericsson President and CEO Hans Vestberg explained...
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As part of its latest quarterly financial release, Sprint announced plans to cut an additional 2,000 jobs. A company spokesman said Sprint had not yet decided from which parts of the organization the cuts would come, but that they would likely be companywide.
Sprint had...
Microsoft continued its push to slash operating costs, with reports noting the software giant recently moved forward with approximately 3,000 job cuts.
ZDNet reported that the cuts were the “third wave” in Microsoft’s previously announced move to cut approximately 18,000 jobs, which it announced this...
Mobile analytics and enterprise software company MicroStrategy plans to cut 800 employees worldwide by the end of the year as part of a restructuring effort, and reported a net loss for the third quarter.
The company reported Q3 revenue of $151.2 million, up 7% year-over-year,...
AT&T reported late last week that it had closed on the sale of its incumbent local exchange operations in Connecticut to Frontier Communications. The $2 billion deal also includes the transfer of approximately 2,500 employees to Frontier.
The deal, which was announced late last year,...
Increasing consumer demand for mobile data services is a boon for the backhaul space as mobile operators and their infrastructure partners look to stay ahead of potential bottlenecks in the system.
The preferred method of meeting this demand is through the use of optical fiber...
U.K. mobile operator EE plans to make some structural changes, including cutting 350 administrative jobs and adding other employees in sales and customer support. The company told Bloomberg that the structural changes are part of their strategy “to expand U.K.-based customer service teams.”
The move comes...
Sprint is reportedly moving forward on plans to cut jobs at its Overland Park, Kan., headquarters, according to published reports.
The Kansas City Star reported late last week that the nation’s No. 3 wireless carrier was set to cut 452 jobs this month, which would...
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