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 (DIR) Post #AVmXA1iBBQyz1OYj32 by neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
       2023-05-18T07:20:02Z
       
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       "BT to cut up to 55,000 jobs by end of decade"Another day, another announcement that a huge number of people - here, 40% of BT's current employees - will be put out of work.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65631168
       
 (DIR) Post #AVmXA2PQadZrBWnGSW by interpipes@thx.gg
       2023-05-18T07:34:38Z
       
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       @neil I suppose that’s the reality of the FTTP rollout nearing completion by that date. At least they’re *planning* for it, which is more than can be said for a lot of the huge layoffs we’ve seen.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVmXA3FtRZXpoFLAEi by interpipes@thx.gg
       2023-05-18T07:37:06Z
       
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       @neil what I don’t understand is why they apparently aren’t framing these announced plans as such. They simply won’t need as many people once the network is built. That is a much better basis than “our stock didn’t perform as well as we hoped this quarter and we just realised we anti-competitively overhired a bunch of developers we don’t have work for, so we’re doing this to make the stock market happy”
       
 (DIR) Post #AVmXA3v0ygRDrma0Ke by interpipes@thx.gg
       2023-05-18T07:38:56Z
       
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       @neil I also imagine they’re banking on fault volumes being significantly lower overall with people moving on to brand new FTTP plant.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVmXA4SgxTNPYEKtpA by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
       2023-05-18T14:15:30Z
       
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       @interpipes @neil A lot of people are also moving to non-BT networks like CityFibre.