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Information / Communication Information Communication Services Telecommunications 61.20 - Wireless telecommunications activities
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 September 2021
Employment effect (start)
22 September 2021
Foreseen end date
31 December 2024
Description
Swedish telephone company and mobile network operator Telia is to create around 400 new jobs in its Service Centre in Vilnius by 2024. The majority of the new employees will be IT specialists – software developers, engineers, architects, data analysts and other professionals.
Currently Telia Global Services Lithuania employs 686 employees. According to the management, this will be the second largest development phase of the Service Centre since the establishment of the company in 2017. The number of employees in the Service Centre is expected to grow to around 1,300 in 2024.
On 1 February 2017, Teo, Omnitel and Baltic Data Center merged into one legal entity under the name Telia Lietuva. Currently Telia Lietuva employs 3,113 employees. Telia Lietuva is part of an international Telia Company Group operating in Nordic and Baltic countries.
Eurofound (2021), Telia Global Services Lithuania, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 105273, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105273.
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