OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
Or to put it another way, that's some ten
percent of the total workforce and comes after a year during which it
has already axed 15,000 jobs.
BT Chief Executive, Ian Livingston, told The Times
that "We will do our best to avoid compulsory redundancies. We are
being very inventive about using outsourcing agencies in placing people
— and we are also working very hard to retrain and redeploy them."
We understand that over the course of the coming year there will be
around 5000 permanent jobs axed and the remaining 10,000 will be cut
from agency and contract staff.
All this comes on the back of a worse than expected pre-tax loss of
£134 million for the last financial year. And that is just a tad down
on the previous year during which BT had pre-tax profits of some £1.9
billion.
The bad guy in all this appears to be the BT Global Services division,
responsible for managed network and IT infrastructure services to the
larger organisations in both private and public sectors, which showed
losses of £2 billion.
"Big global contracts underperformed: BT [Global Services]
underestimated the costs associated with large service
infrastructures..." Ovum principal analyst, David Maloney, told Computing.
The phrase that comes to mind is 'No Sh*t Sherlock.'
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