Nokia is laying off 15000 after the merger with Alcatel-Lucent. And majority of the layoffs are going to be in USA R&D from 4G LTE Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) product development since Nokia wants to use their product in ATT/VzW/Sprint. However, ALU's product is superior then Nokia's product. But because Nokia bought ALU, it wants to use it's product to show the USA customers who's the boss.
I hope ATT/VzW/Sprint demand they keep the ALU product because going to a less superior product doesn't make sense.
In order to buy Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia made a deal with the French government, that the French layoffs would be minimum (-411 jobs but +500 college grads) so now the USA employees are the ones to get hit by the layoffs.
ATT/VzW/Sprint are the USA company now providing Nokia with a steady stream of revenue and USA employees are the ones hardest hit by the layoffs. And the funny thing is that no USA manager/HR person is willing to tell the USA employee what percentage, which facility, when majority of the layoffs will occur.
Just check out the webpage: www.thelayoff.com/nokia -- not many employees are posting.