Once again in 2017, AT & T 280,000 employees had: at the beginning of 2025, this decreased to 141,000. Verizon had less than 100,000 employees at the end of 2024 and reduced 32,600 jobs in the four years before that (but its annual revenues rose by $ 6.5 billion).

Now, the role of Uscellular: Telco has started notifying the organizers about the demobilization of the associated workers T-Mobile plan to get most of its operations. While a message cited by local media in Missouri state indicates that all 400 employees can be affected, providing the company’s warning does not specify their number will lose their jobs. Providing a warning is a required notice that companies must submit to government organizers at least 60 days before the implementation of mass demobilization or closing of the main facilities.

Uscellular layoffs are scheduled to start on June 2, and are expected to affect the multiple sites of the communication center. The company, which reported about 4,100 employees as of February, did not reveal the number of workers who will be affected. Its headquarters in Chicago, Uscellular is the largest regional wireless transport company in the United States, serving approximately 4.1 million in advance and 400,000 prior customers in 21 states.

So far in 2025, no warning notifications have been provided in Illinois by telecommunications companies. When asked before Light reading, Uscellular representative refused to provide details, but he mentioned it T-Mobile, who plans to obtain most USCellular operations, has not made final decisions on employment. However, note T-Mobile It intends to provide jobs to at least the majority of the cell employees.

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Although it was expected that the demobilization operations would stop to $ 4.4 billion for sale T-MobileThe timing emerges, as they started before the deal officially closed. T-Mobile She indicated that she hopes to complete the transaction by mid -2015, but this schedule may turn due to the ongoing organizational reviews.

Uscellular has fought in recent years with the largest national transport companies T-Mobileand VerizonAnd AT & T And expanded their arrival. after T-Mobile A deal, the remaining spectrum assets of Uscellular attracted attention from other buyers, although many of these deals depend on them T-MobileGain the corridor.

CWA telecommunications workers raised concerns about integration, warning that it might be strengthened T-MobileImpact on local labor markets. The Federal Communications Committee (FCC) is still reviewing the transaction and requested additional information.

It is worth noting, T-Mobile She had previously pledged not to reduce jobs during the 2020 SPRINT inclusion process, although she later made it clear that the promise indicates the levels of the number of employees after two years of the deal, not immediately after the merger. In general, job cuts have become more common in the American wireless industry, with AT & T and VerizonCombined workforce reduces 6 % last year, as mentioned above.