NSN cuts jobs on top of 17,000 guidance offered in November

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is cutting jobs following the end of a managed services deal, and outsourcing some of its R&D activities, as the company continues with a restructure that will see it focusing on fast-growth areas such as mobile broadband.

The company is cutting 3,500 jobs in Brazil, following the end of a managed services agreement with operator Oi. It gained 3,000 staff from the operator and third parties as part of the 2009 deal, Bloomberg reports.

The cuts are allegedly coming on top of previously announced staff reductions, and will help contribute to NSN’s overall cost-cutting efforts.

The telecom technology vendor has also signed an agreement with Nordic IT services company Tieto to outsource part of the maintenance, technical support and R&D for NSN’s mobile network operations support system (OSS) and subscriber data management (SDM) activities in Finland.

This deal will see 240 staff transferring to Tieto, a company which already employs 18,000 staff.

NSN is also reported to have partnered with Juniper Networks for the launch of their Integrated Packet Transport Network solution, which is intended to “address the need of service providers to simplify the network architecture by integrating multiple layers into a simple, scalable design that improves the economics of the core network infrastructure.”

NSN is supplying optical packet transport equipment.