LOUISVILLE, Ky. — T-Mobile, one of the country’s largest cell phone carriers, confirmed it’s laying off 127 employees in Louisville.
The permanent job cuts come about three months after T-Mobile and rival Sprint completed a $26 billion merger. Former Sprint employees now under T-Mobile are being let go.
Some 200 of the company’s Kansas-based employees, for instance, recently were laid off, the Kansas City Business Journal reported this week.
The affected Kentucky employees all worked at T-Mobile’s offices at 4701 Olympia Park Plaza in East Louisville. They were notified through June 16, according to a letter sent to the Kentucky Career Center’s Office of Employment and Training in Frankfort by Jennifer Cox, HR project/program manager.
The cuts eliminated several sales positions, including more than 80 account executives. Cox did not respond to a reporter’s phone message left late Friday.
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T-Mobile’s highly contested merger with Sprint closed on April 1. The country’s third- and fourth-largest carriers insisted the marriage would allow them to compete more effectively with the industry’s leaders, AT&T and Verizon.
After clearing months of regulatory hurdles this spring, T-Mobile promised to expand its 5G network and add more than 3,500 additional full-time U.S. employees in the first year and 11,000 more people by 2024, according to USA Today.
Terms of the layoffs in Kentucky were not disclosed. But the online tech new site TechCrunch reported that severance packages for employees amounted to two weeks pay for every year on the job, plus a chance to apply for open jobs at the newly merged T-Mobile.
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