SYDNEY: Australia´s biggest telecommunications company Telstra Corp Ltd on Wednesday said it would lay off 8,000 employees, including removing 25 percent of executive and middle management roles, as well as spinning off its infrastructure assets into a standalone unit.
The new unit, to be named, Telstra InfraCo will comprise Telstraâ s fixed network infrastructure and data centres along with operations of Telstra´s National Broadband Network.
The new Business Unit is expected to control assets with a book value of about A$11 billion ($8.11 billion).
"We are now at a tipping point where we must act more boldly if we are to continue to be the nationâ s leading telecommunications company," Chief Executive Andrew Penn said regarding the layoffs.
Telstra said it would increase its productivity program by a further A$1 billion in order to reduce costs by A$2.5 billion (US$1.84 billion) by fiscal 2022. Telstra also said it expects fiscal 2019 core earnings between A$8.7 billion and A$9.4 billion, excluding restructuring costs of approximately A$600 million.
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