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AT&T to add 5,000 jobs in US

Once the proposed merger between AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA is closed, AT&T is bringing back 5,000 wireless call center jobs to the United States that are currently outsourced to other countries.

By Amanda McGrory-Dixon | Updated on August 31, 2011

Once the proposed merger between AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA is closed, AT&T is bringing back 5,000 wireless call center jobs to the United States that are currently outsourced to other countries.

AT&T also says the merger will not cause any layoffs for T-Mobile USA and AT&T U.S.-based wireless call center employees who are on the payroll once the merger closes. The 5,000 new wireless call center jobs at AT&T, which is the nation’s largest employer of full-time union employees and the only unionized major U.S. wireless carrier, signals the largest push by an American company to bring back jobs to the U.S. since the economic fell in 2008. AT&T has yet to determine where the new U.S. jobs will be located.

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