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Nokia Siemens plans thousands of layoffs
News Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is aiming for annualised operating expenditure and overhead cost reductions of around €500m (£449m) by 2011. Nokia Siemens Networks could lay off more than 4,500 of its workers as part of a cost-cutting drive.
[November 3, 2009, 13:40]
Oftel approves BT's broadband price cuts
News The telecoms regulator decided not to intervene after it concluded that the substantial reductions were achieved through cost savings. Oftel has found that BT's price reductions reflect the significant cut in network and provision costs that BT has...
[March 28, 2002, 11:49]
ISPs unveil business broadband savings
News We are delighted to hear the news on the price reductions from BT, particularly the comparatively large drop in the cost of higher bandwidth services. Eclipse Internet, Zen Internet, Plusnet and V21 are among the first to announce how they will...
[April 7, 2003, 16:12]
Dell cuts back on temporary staff, more layoffs expected
News Reid would not comment on exact cost reductions or layoffs but said that Chairman Michael Dell has signalled that "we are going to even be more aggressive in reducing operating expenses. David Bailey, an analyst at Gerard Klauer Mattison, said such...
[February 9, 2001, 7:57]
Broadband competition boosted by Ofcom
News In May this year Ofcom announced that it wanted BT to cut its LLU prices -- at which point BT immediately announced some voluntary reductions. The cost of transferring a line from BT's control to an LLU operator will now fall from £88 to just £34.86.
[December 17, 2004, 15:45]
EC to cap text-roaming costs
News The cost of text messaging while abroad on the continent is to be cut drastically, the European Commission announced on Tuesday. The average cost of a roaming text message in the EU between October 2007 and March 2008 was €0.29 [23 pence...
[July 15, 2008, 16:09]
BT to shed 10,000 workers
News A BT spokesperson told ZDNet UK that the reductions were "primarily about BT reducing its dependence on consultants and contractors". BT's spokesperson denied the job cuts were a result of the recession, saying they were a part of an £800m cost...
[November 13, 2008, 12:25]
Ofcom: Data-roaming charges 'bad for businesses'
News Richards noted that there had been "some reductions" in the cost of data roaming — a possible reference to O2's recent announcement that it was to slash such prices for its customers — but said that, while these cuts were very welcome, "we need...
[January 30, 2008, 11:44]
Establishing Global Innovation Networks
White Papers Manufacturers today are striving to achieve top-line growth while maintaining the cost reductions they've achieved in recent years. It's a delicate balance, particularly when business is increasingly global, fluid and complex.
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Four Vital Reasons Manufacturing Execution Systems Are Essential to Lean Enterprise Initiatives
White Papers Today's manufacturers operate in an increasingly demanding environment that includes global competition, increasing pressures for cost reductions and new products, quality-driven compliance, and improvements in on-time and in-full orders.
[March 24, 2009, 0:20]
Tektronix beats 2Q estimates
News Strong sales, good gross margins and cost reductions led to excellent operating margins for the measurement business, the company said. Newly focused Tektronix, said Wednesday net income for its second quarter was $15.2m (£9m), or 32 cents a share...
[December 15, 1999, 13:46]
Business Value Using Service Oriented Architecture
White Papers Nowadays system development and maintenance struggle against a more dynamical business environment with great focus on profits and cost reductions. This forces business to demand powerful and flexible systems at low costs, which puts organisations...
[March 29, 2007, 1:00]
mySAP Supply Chain Management Brings Process-Industry Focus to the Telecommunications Industry
White Papers Driven by difficult market conditions, wireline operator Telefonica de Espana embarked on a program of cost reductions, efficiency, and productivity improvements. With SAP APO in place, Telefonica de Espana reduced unused network inventory by 40...
[September 14, 2007, 1:00]
HP Consulting Helps TCU Wire Campus While Beating Cost Benchmarks
White Papers While standardization holds the promise of future cost reductions, migration from legacy hardware inevitably incurs costs. Texas Christian University (TCU) made a decision to standardize its networked hardware and software environment.
[August 25, 2009, 10:14]
Broadband price cuts likely to win Oftel approval
News BT is claiming that it has achieved the cost reductions through a combination of economies of scale, cheaper hardware and lower engineering costs. There had been concerns that the regulator might block the reductions in the cost of BT's wholesale...
[February 26, 2002, 17:51]
Winning Services Strategies: How to Avoid the Commodity Trap
White Papers In this webcast the attendee will learn how to create high value services and solutions and how to develop value propositions to move beyond mere cost reductions.
[May 12, 2007, 1:00]
A Balanced Approach to Offshore Outsourcing: Gain Strategic Improvements in Business Performance
White Papers One of the most significant business trends over the next five years will be corporations leveraging application outsourcing, business process outsourcing, and offshore delivery to achieve dramatic cost reductions and business improvements.
[July 14, 2009, 1:19]
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics - Global F-35 Aircraft Coalition Builds Unique Collaboration Network
White Papers As many as 5,000 aircraft with at least three design variants with goals include unprecedented design/build cycle reductions, lowest cost of sustainment for 30-year life of fleet. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics wanted three primary industrial partners...
[January 15, 2008, 0:01]
The Issue: How to Design and Deploy a Global Service Delivery Model
White Papers Just as BPO and ITO have become common and accepted tools that buyers should at least consider to enable process improvement and cost reductions, the global sourcing of BPO and ITO is becoming an option that merits consideration.
[November 28, 2008, 23:00]
Pratt & Whitney's Very Visible, Highly Successful Engineering Data Transformation
White Papers To meet ambitious cost and cycle time reductions targeted by top management, Pratt & Whitney's engineering organization needed to revitalize its handling of product data. Pratt & Whitney (P&W) has built more than half of the 34,000 commercial...
[January 15, 2008, 0:01]
