When France Télécom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile merged their UK businesses earlier this year, they admitted job cuts would probably follow. After reporting a massive profits drop, the recently-named Everything, Everywhere company has acted to reduce its headcount by 1,200.
Among the job losses will be 150 people from the IT department, though the company said it is merely reducing overlap between roles. Most of the other reductions will hit the legal and other non-customer-facing departments as the company sheds 7.5 percent of its 16,000 staff. The company added that it had “no intention” of closing any of its main offices in Hatfield, London and Bristol.
These results will be particularly upsetting for the company because it is hoping to consolidate its position before it loses part of its combined 1,800 MHz dominant share of the UK radio spectrum. A condition set by the European Commission in February was that the parent companies would agree to the sale.
In five days’ time, the company will begin to merge its networks, the first phase is said to join the 2G elements of their national networks to allow free roaming for their customers. This will please the T-mobile customers most because outside of London the T-Mobile network has been criticised for its unreliability. However, it will not improve the situation for internet access for 3G smartphone users.
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When The Chief Officers' Network reported (T-Mobile: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid : http://www.chiefofficers.net) the company started to sort out the problems. But its customer services department has failed to deliver on its promises and the contact who was so helpful no longer appears to get e-mails addressed to him; even the Ashford, Kent shop is no longer helpful.
It's a disgrace.