The company now has about 75,000 workers. About 1,000 of the jobs to be eliminated are positions that will become redundant when the operations merge, the company said. The remainder are being cut as part of an effort to "maintain a competitive cost structure," Sprint President Ronald LeMay said in a release. Westwood, Kan.-based Sprint recently let go of 1,660 people in its PCS division as part of cost cutting. The telephone company plans to combine billing, information technology and other back-end activities at its divisions in an effort to cut costs.

CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, The survey found that there are now about 30 million DSL users globally, That figure doesn't include high-speed Web surfing done trendy modern faux rose gold glitter ombre leopard pattern iphone case via cable modems, which in general cost about $10 less a month in the United States than DSL service does, By most estimates, there are 15 million cable modems in use in the United States, twice as many as there are DSL connections, but there are only 5 million other cable modem connections anywhere else in the world..

"In the U.S., (cable modem providers) are beating the hell out of us," Rodey acknowledged. "But globally we're beating the hell out of them.". A representative for the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, one of the largest cable modem industry groups, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. The growth in broadband, regardless of how it is delivered, is a phenomenon of particular interest to U.S. lawmakers, who are now deciding how to spread high-speed Web access across the United States. Many legislators believe faster Web access can make people more productive at their jobs and help increase the gross domestic product, but they have logjammed over how to facilitate the proliferation of high-speed connections.

"If you show a politician some of these numbers, this should get them trendy modern faux rose gold glitter ombre leopard pattern iphone case into action," Rodey said, The number of digital subscriber line customers worldwide grew at an unprecedented rate from July through September, providing signs of life for the broadband market, a survey says, More than 5 million people worldwide signed up for DSL service between July 1 and Sept, 30, an increase of nearly 20 percent over the previous three-month period, according to the survey, which was released Tuesday, The percentage increase is the largest ever recorded by the DSL Forum, said the group's chairman, William V, Rodey, Rodey added that the findings are encouraging him to stick with the forum's target of 36 million DSL customers worldwide by year's end and 200 million DSL subscribers by 2005..

CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. He points out that the Fujitsu phone, now shipping to Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo, uses the wideband-CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) standard, which moves Web pages or e-mails between 386kbps and 2.4mbps. Microsoft's cell phone software hasn't been incorporated into any phones using wideband-CDMA or similarly performing standards such as EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) and Qualcomm's more sophisticated versions of its CDMA technology.