Even though 85,000 jobs were lost in December, wireless carrier job employment has only been down about 1,000 positions from January 2009 through November, according to recent figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The employment figures for wireless carriers, which lag behind a...
T-Mobile USA Inc. was chastised for its labor relations in a report by the American Rights at Work Education Fund. The report, “Lowering the bar or setting the standard? Deutsche Telekom’s U.S. labor practices,” claims that the wireless industry’s No. 4 carrier and its...
Mobile semiconductor provider ST-Ericsson announced last week that it will institute new plans designed to save the company $115 million per year. The move is on top of reorganization plans announced this summer by the joint venture between Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST-NXP Wireless....
The nation’s unemployment rate ticked down .2 percentage points in November to an even 10%, but about 8,600 more jobs in the telecommunications sector were lost, according to the most recent information released by the Department of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the...
Leaders from a number of high-tech and telecom firms as well as labor leaders are expected to meet this week at President Obama’s jobs summit in Washington, D.C. The meeting is based on the President’s Forum on Jobs and looks to generate discussions on...
Having successfully completed the purchase of Nortel Network’s CDMA and LTE assets, Ericsson announced plans to buy the bankrupt network manufacturer’s GSM assets in the U.S. and Canada for $70 million. Austrian-based Kapsch CarrierComm AG is picking up the rest of Nortel’s GSM business...
Following an intense weekend of bidding, Linthicum, Md.-based Ciena Corp. prevailed in winning bankrupt telecom equipment provider Nortel Networks Corp.'s Metro Ethernet Networks business for $769 million in total compensation. The assets include Nortel's optical networking and carrier Ethernet business and are expected to...
North America has become Ericsson's largest sales region and its second-largest employment region with the just completed acquisition of Nortel Networks assets and the recent outsourcing win from Sprint Nextel Corp. Ericsson's $1.13 billion purchase of bankrupt infrastructure vendor Nortel, which was finalized...
As nationwide unemployment inched up to 10.2% in October, employment in the telecommunications sector remained flat from month to month, while employment in the computer and electronic products sector was down about 6,300 jobs from September to October.The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported...
Employment in the wireless industry is still healthy, despite the downturn in the overall economy. Indeed, the number of people wireless carriers directly employ declined about 2.4% in the last year. At a time when the national unemployment rate is trending upward at 9.8%,...
Transpera - Jeff Ballowe and Robert Perkins, former Presidents of Ziff-Davis Interactive Media Division and Chiat/Day New York, respectively, have joined Transpera's Board of Directors. Ballowe acted as President of Ziff-Davis; Interactive Media Division for 11 years, and Perkins currently serves as President of...
U.S. employers plan to keep their staffing levels relatively stable during Quarter 4 2009, according to the seasonally adjusted results of the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, conducted quarterly by Manpower Inc. "The hiring intentions of U.S. companies continue to be sluggish," said Manpower...
The converging telecom and IT space is set to become a $5 trillion global business, fueled by relentless demand from individuals and businesses to be able to access information across any device at any time. The wireless/telecom/media/IT sector is growing two to five...
The Communications Workers of America and AT&T Mobility remain deadlocked over a new contract covering more than 20,000 workers employed by the No. 2 wireless provider. The labor-management faceoff is playing out as the Democratic-led Congress prepares to revisit highly combustible legislation to make...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Billions of new dollars may become available for broadband in national stimulus spending, with wireless companies and...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Billions of new dollars may become available for broadband in national stimulus spending, with wireless companies and...
The Communications Workers of America and AT&T Mobility failed to reach an agreement over the weekend on a new contract covering 20,000 wireless workers in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Mountain States and West Coast. However, the dispute has yet to materialize into a strike...
Communications Workers of America members overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike on behalf of more than 20,000 unionized AT&T Mobility employees if concerns about compensation, employment and working conditions are not adequately addressed in upcoming negotiations over a new contract. "For AT&T Mobility members,...
A number of Alltel Communications L.L.C employees may soon lose their jobs.According to an Associated Press report, when Verizon Wireless' purchase of Alltel finalizes, the carrier plans to keep a regional headquarters in Alltel's base city of Little Rock. However, the existing Alltel headquarters...
The mobile phone industry urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling in which a California state law trumped the Federal Arbitration Act.The high court, which agreed to review the case, Preston v. Ferrer, in late September, has nothing to do...
T-Mobile USA Inc. pulled job postings with anti-union language from its Web site, after protests from Switzerland-based international union group UNI. T-Mobile USA spokesman Peter Dobrow said that the language of the ads was "a poor choice of words" and confirmed that "we've now...
BELLEVUE, Wash-T-Mobile USA Inc. has pulled job postings with anti-union language from its Web site, after protests from Switzerland-based international union group UNI. T-Mobile USA spokesman Peter Dobrow said that the language of the ads was "a poor choice of words" and confirmed that...
WASHINGTON-The Communications Workers of America said it reached a tentative agreement with Cingular Wireless L.L.C. on a new contract covering 5,300 workers 15 states and several provinces of Canada. CWA said the accord provides for a wage increase of 11 percent for Cingular workers...
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