Motorola to cut 3,000 jobs in reaction to sagging sales

MOTOROLA, the world’s second-biggest mobile-phone maker, will cut another 3,000 jobs this year to help counter sagging sales of equipment for cellular networks and cable television.

However, industry sources here indicate that none of the 650 people employed by Motorola should be in the firing line.

The company employs 550 people at its Global Telecoms Solutions Sector programming centre at Mahon in Cork, 40 people at the Cork Airport Business Park where the Wireless and Broadband Systems group developed and brought the world's first GPRS transceivers into production, and 60 in Dublin.