That was just over a year ago. Heckled by the competition on its development of future networks and in particular 5G, Nokia announced a vast cost reduction plan providing for the elimination of more than 1,200 jobs in France, including 400 in the bastion of Lannion occupied by former employees of Alcatel-Lucent. The mobilization of employees and several Breton elected officials had pushed the group to “save” 250 jobs (162 in Lannion and 85 in Nozay in Essonne).
The Finnish telephone equipment manufacturer’s promise was to establish a “European center of excellence in cybersecurity” in the Côtes d’Armor. The launch of this center is intended to “support the development of 5G and the virtualization of networks”, explains the group. The center is based in Lannion, the French epicenter of research in telecommunications technologies. “A hundred positions are open for recruitment to strengthen existing teams,” Nokia said Thursday on the occasion of the official launch of the center.
“Improve their prevention, detection and response capacities to threats”
The establishment must “make it possible both to improve and secure the critical infrastructure networks and the assets” of Nokia customers, operators and companies, and also to help them “improve their prevention, detection and response capacities. threats ”.
In early 2021, Nokia had announced a plan of 5,000 to 10,000 job cuts in two years at all of its sites around the world, or more than 10% of its workforce.