Nokia cuts another 10,000 jobs as losses deepen

Nokia is cutting another 10,000 jobs globally and has warned that second-quarter losses from its mobile phone business will be larger than expected.

The cuts bring total planned job cuts at the Finnish group since Stephen Elop took over as chief executive in September 2010 to more than 40,000.

Nokia will also book additional restructuring charges of about 1bn euros (£811m; $1.3bn).

Nokia's shares have slumped more than 70% since February 2011. "These planned reductions are a difficult consequence of the intended actions we believe we must take to ensure Nokia's long-term competitive strength," Mr Elop said in a statement.

Last year, Nokia announced it would phase out its own Symbian smartphone operating software and, for its smartphones, focus on Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system.

Reducing costs

Nokia will close its last remaining plant in Finland, at Salo, although it will continue to do research there.

Research and development sites at Ulm in Germany and Burnaby in Canada will also close.
The company hopes to complete the closures and redundancies by the end of 2013.

It expects the process to cost 650m euros ($817m) this year and 600m euros ($754m) next year.
The overall aim is to reduce core operating costs to 3bn euros ($3.8bn) a year.

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