Telecom Industry Layoff Tracker: Nortel Casts Off 3,200

Updated Feb. 25, 2009

02/25/2009

Nortel Networks Corp. is cutting thousands more jobs – 3,200 this time. The layoffs will take place worldwide.

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Company	Month Announced	Layoffs	Running Total
Nortel	Feb. 2009	3,200	4,500
Qwest	Feb. 2009	1,700	2,900
Tellabs	Feb. 2009	60	2,510
Time Warner Cable	Feb. 2009	1,250	1,262
ACS	Jan. 2009	20
BellCanada	Jan. 2009	1,500	4,000
Google	Jan. 2009	100	5,100 including 5,000 contractors
Ericsson	Jan. 2009	5,000	9,000
FairPoint Communications	Jan. 2009	56
Intel Corp.	Jan. 2009	5,000
Microsoft	Jan. 2009	5,000
Motorola	Jan. 2009	4,000
Oracle	Jan. 2009	500	7,000
Sonus Networks	Jan. 2009	40
Sprint Nextel	Jan. 2009	8,000
Alvarion	Dec. 2008	110	90
Alcatel-Lucent	Dec. 2008	1,000
AT&T	Dec. 2008	12,000	17,500
Level 3	Dec. 2008	450
PAETEC	Dec. 2008	222
Windstream	Dec. 2008	170
Akamai	Nov. 2008	110	170
BT	Nov. 2008	9,999
Hatteras Networks	Nov. 2008	20
Motorola	Nov. 2008	3,000
Nokia Siemens	Nov. 2008	750
Nortel Networks	Nov. 2008	1,300
Sun Microsystems	Nov. 2008	6,000
Cox Communications	Nov. 2008	500	6,130
Virgin Media UK, cable operator	Nov. 2008	2,200
Virgin Mobile USA	Nov. 2008	45
Broadsoft	Oct. 2008	12
Sony Ericsson	Oct. 2008	2,000
Tellabs	Oct. 2008	280	2,450

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