Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) 计划裁减数千个岗位，旨在通过“缩减员工规模”节省约 3 亿英镑。
Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) is set to cut thousands of jobs, as it looks to save around £300m through "a reduction in the size of the workforce".
这家电信公司周二表示，雇员总数为 1.5 万人，到 2029 年将通过削减 30% 的工资支出并调整投资（包括暂停当前的光纤升级）节省 8 亿英镑。
The telecoms firm, which employs 15,000 people, said on Tuesday that it would save £800m by 2029 by cutting 30% of its wage bill and making changes to investments - including halting current fibre upgrades.
公司补充称，大部分裁减将来自非面向客户的岗位，具体人数尚未确定。
The majority of the reduction would come from non-customer-facing roles, it added, saying an exact number is yet to be decided.
首席执行官 Lutz Schuler 表示，这些变革很艰难，但“考虑到我们面临的市场状况、光纤领域的监管环境以及席卷经济各领域的技术变革，原地踏步、沿袭旧有做法已非选项”。
CEO Lutz Schuler said the changes were tough, but "given the market conditions we face, the regulatory backdrop in fibre and the technological changes sweeping across all areas of the economy, standing still and doing what we've always done is not an option".
此前，天空新闻城市编辑 Mark Kleinman 周末报道称，VMO2 将裁减数千个岗位，投资者担忧其偿还 220 亿英镑债务的能力。
It comes after Sky News' City editor Mark Kleinman reported over the weekend that VMO2 was set to axe thousands of jobs amid investor concerns about its ability to service its £22bn debt mountain.
消息人士承认，VMO2 的裁员规模将达数千人，一位知情人士向 Kleinman 透露，受影响岗位可能多达 4000 个。
Sources conceded that layoffs at VMO2 would be in the thousands, with one insider suggesting to Mr Kleinman that as many as 4,000 jobs were likely to be affected.
据了解，CWU 和 Prospect 工会官员已获知部分即将实施的转型计划。
Trade union officials at the CWU and Prospect are understood to have been briefed on some of the impending transformation plans.
在第三季度财报中，VMO2 报告第三季度固定电话用户减少 23300 户，总数降至 550 万户，调整后核心收益下降 2.6% 至 9.95 亿英镑。
In its third quarter results, VMO2 reported a loss of 23,300 fixed-line customers in the third quarter, taking its total to £5.5m, and a drop in adjusted core earnings by 2.6% to £995m.
VMO2 还在探讨的其他方案包括：利用竞争对手的网络拓展覆盖范围——即“搭便车”使用 BT 全国 Openreach 网络等其他运营商的基础设施。
Other plans floated by VMO2 include talks on using a rival's network to expand beyond its own footprint - piggybacking off other operators' infrastructure on BT's national Openreach network.
这意味着其运营模式将类似于 Sky Mobile 或 giffgaff 等移动虚拟网络运营商，它们使用 O2 的网络。
It could mean operating like mobile virtual network operators, such as Sky Mobile or giffgaff, which use O2's network.
VMO2 此前计划将其有线网络升级为光纤，并通过收购 Netomnia（最大的替代网络提供商之一）拓展覆盖范围。
VMO2 previously planned to upgrade its cable network to fibre and expand its footprint through the acquisition of Netomnia, one of the largest alternative network providers (altnets).
然而，竞争与市场管理局上个月反对这笔交易，暂时认定该合并“可能预期将导致固定宽带批发服务的竞争大幅减弱”。该决定并非最终裁定。
However, the Competition and Markets Authority opposed the deal last month, saying provisionally that the merger "may be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition in the wholesale supply of fixed broadband services". The decision is not final.
关键的美国中期选举首批投票站开放 拉塞尔·布兰德强奸案审判接近尾声 Nexfibre是VMO2所有者与投资公司InfraVia的合资企业，计划对监管机构的推理提出挑战。
First polls open in crucial US midterms Russell Brand rape trial nears end Nexfibre, a joint venture between VMO2's owners and investment firm InfraVia, is planning to challenge the regulator's reasoning.
此前，VMO2曾表示将升级其现有的有线网络——该网络采用较旧的技术——以在明年向大多数客户提供2Gbps服务。
It also comes after VMO2 previously said it would upgrade its existing cable network, which uses older technology, to offer 2Gbps services to the majority of customers next year.