AT&T will launch a technical support center in San Antonio, Texas next year, creating 200 jobs for technical service representatives and managers. The call center will serve customers of AT&T U-verse, the company’s broadband, voice and digital television service. AT&T has formed a partnership with the City of San Antonio and Alamo Colleges, to develop a [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 25, 2009
Contec Holdings is sending 132 jobs at its Schenectady, New York plant to Mexico and other locations. The plant will stay open with 85 employees, but cease production. The layoffs will affect 100 blue collars and 32 white collars. Founded in 1978, Contec Holdings is a leading consumer premise equipment repair company providing services to the broadband [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 3, 2009
CenturyTel has merged with Embarq, and an undisclosed number of jobs will be eliminated before the end of 2009. The new firm is called CenturyLink, and employs 20,000 employees in 33 states. It will be headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. CenturyTel purchased Embarq for $11.6 billion. Fewer than 30 jobs will be cut in July, but further, larger [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 2, 2009
Atlanta’s Cox Communications held a job fair in Rancho Santa Margarita, California this week, with 750 applicants applying for 60 positions. The jobs pay up to $50,000 a year. Cox Communications is a privately-owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest cable TV provider in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Telecommunications giant AT&T plans to add 3,000 jobs in 2009 as part of a multibillion-dollar capital-spending plan. AT&T will spend up to $18 billion this year, with two-thirds of the funds used to expand its wireless and broadband networks. The company will add up to 3,000 jobs in 2009 to support increased customer demand. Despite the job additions, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 7, 2009
Telecommunications companies will put thousands of construction workers to work this year expanding the nation’s broadband infrastructure, if they get the money from the federal economic stimulus package. Congress is considering stimulus legislation that would pump billions of dollars into extending high-speed Internet service to areas that lack broadband today. The jobs would be created quickly and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 29, 2009
Colorado lawmakers have endorsed a package of job-creation bills today, intended to create tens of thousands of positions in transportation and to help rural communities. The bills include plans to help small businesses get credit; entice large new companies to Colorado; and develop “green” jobs. Other bills would add transportation jobs to fix roads and bridges, create [...]
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