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Cingular to cut up to 3,000 jobs, 7.5% of work force
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
ATLANTA -- Cingular Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. mobile-telephone company, will cut as many as 3,000 jobs, a 7.5 percent reduction of its staff, and reorganize its sales force by industry rather than geographic region.
More than a third of the cuts will come from eliminating temporary positions and normal attrition, Cingular said in a statement yesterday.
Cingular has about 40,000 employees, including 4,000 temporary workers, spokesman Clay Owen said. Some are represented by the Communications Workers of America.
Owen couldn't say how many of the jobs to be eliminated are held by union members.
Cingular employed 160 people in Washington state as of July 31, said spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock. She wouldn't say how many of them work in Seattle or are affected by the layoffs.
Wireless carriers are trying to reduce costs as sales and customer growth slow. Cingular last weekend cut the number of minutes included on its national plans, which don't charge extra fees for long-distance or out-of-area calls.
It also stopped including 3,500 free night and weekend minutes in those plans.
Cingular plans job cuts in sales, marketing, network operations, finance and human resources. The reductions will affect workers in the United States and Puerto Rico, and will result in pretax costs of about $70 million "predominantly in 2002," Cingular said.
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