Are there job losses happening in telecom sector due to recession ?

First of all let me tell you that the impact of the current global economic recession would be comparatively less on Indian telecom sector due to the inherent strength and faster anticipated growth in this sector. Indian telecom sector has a unique distinction of being the fastest growing telecom sector in the world with addition of over eight million subscribers per month and the second largest wireless network in the world after China with over 315 mobile connections. To a certain extent there are people who are being laid-off but that is not due to recession but because of their inefficiency.so Indian telecom industry is somewhat recession proof. what is your opinion regarding this?

First of all indian telcos were never in recession...due to current penentration on a lower side... the question may be: due to economic downturn in other industries, are / will there be some job losses taking place in telecom industry as well....my answer will be yes. If we take the perspective of a capitalist businessman, he will try to make out every opportunity that increase efficiencies in his enterprise, that  includes some job cuts here n there thus taking advantage of a downturn.

But internationally, if we notice...the situation is not that sound...big customers around the world have reduced their consumption....consequently the order book of the major established telcos has gone down as well...this is resulting in lesser work...so lesser requirements...and consequently more job losses. BT, Telecom Italia are some good examples.

Though there may be some other new n unique reasons as well...like... the IP NGN adopted now a days on core network is helping companies to save some huge CAPEX and OPEX, the companies quick to adopt te same must be seeing some good profits by now...also due to this type of infrastructure, the manpower requirements go down...this may...result in some more cuts as well in future.

So to conclude, Indian companies may cut some jobs....it may be result of a particular mgmt. perspective... there are going to be different reasons of layoffs in international companies....recession is one of them.

There are no major job cuts at operators, only some job losses for contractual employees.

However, there are some straight job cuts at vendors like Ericsson, Motorola etc. They are affected more as operators are not going for new expansion. They are simply continuing their old contracts.

There are job losses happening in telecom sector. May be we can say that Telcos in INDIA are not affected,

but there are a few small companies (domestic & MNCs) working on some telecom applications development

 and VAS etc.  who had laid off employees. Taking this issue on a broader picture, there are even some

Telcos also of different countries who are laying off the employees for cost cutting.  

I haven't heard any news about job losses in the telecom sector, as telecom is more of a recession proof sector, but surely new initiatives that were ready to be implemented have been stopped due to recession, but there is no job losses as such.....