Sandie Seward
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Nokia.Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, has announced plans to shed 1,700 jobs worldwide as part of a major cost-cutting drive.
Phone sales have been hit hard by the economic downturn and the company said in January that it would cut costs by 700m euros ($910m; £647m).
"The number of employees we have to reduce is 1,700," confirmed Arja Suominen at Nokia.
She said about 700 jobs will go in Finland, with the US and the UK, where its head office is based in Farnborough, Hampshire, the next hardest hit.
"We are making very small changes in a large number of countries, but when you count them together you come to very big numbers," she explained.
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