{"id":6028,"date":"2007-10-30T18:20:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T18:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/alcatellucent-may-cut-more.html"},"modified":"2007-10-30T18:20:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T18:20:37","slug":"alcatellucent-may-cut-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/alcatellucent-may-cut-more.html","title":{"rendered":"Alcatel-Lucent May Cut More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/alcatel-lucent.gif\" \/>It is a shame to hear that Alcatel-Lucent may be cutting more people than expected. I was really impressed with the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/security\/sprintsecure-laptop-guardian.html\">wireless security device<\/a> the company recently rolled out with Sprint and I&rsquo;m saddened to see great new products accompanying job loss.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">But then again if the customers are merging, so too must the equipment providers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Here is the scary news. The company is planning on cutting 12,500 but at least one analyst <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/0f08ded2-8727-11dc-a3ff-0000779fd2ac.html\">thinks<\/a> the company needs to cut 30k to be as efficient as Ericsson. Ouch!<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The Financial Times has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/0f08ded2-8727-11dc-a3ff-0000779fd2ac.html\">more<\/a> on this story.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a shame to hear that Alcatel-Lucent may be cutting more people than expected. I was really impressed with the wireless security device the company recently rolled out with Sprint and I&rsquo;m saddened to see great new products accompanying job loss. &nbsp; But then again if the customers are merging, so too must the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,179,180,160,212,199,1669,156,189,118,190,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}