Half of Nokia’s Workers in San Diego to Lose Jobs
From the Associated Press
Nokia Corp. will halve its San Diego workforce of 1,100 employees because of its decision to stop making phones based on Qualcomm Inc.’s patented technology called CDMA, or code division multiple access.
Nokia, which employed 58,874 people worldwide at the end of last year, scrapped plans in June to join forces with Sanyo Electric Co. to produce CDMA phones.
The Finnish company, the world’s largest cellphone maker, opened a 185,000-square-foot facility in San Diego in 1999 to produce CDMA phones for the U.S. market.
