KPN Telecom yesterday said it would lay off 4,800 staff, as part of a restructuring plan announced in October 2000, to speed up cost-cutting and reduce its huge debt.
Analysts welcomed the move as evidence that KPN, which has a 21 per cent stake in Eircom, was serious about cutting its €22.3 billion debt.
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