Kyocera consolidates handset businesses, cuts 360 jobs in the process
By Donald Melanson 
posted January 30th 2009 6:34PM
posted January 30th 2009 6:34PM
It's only been a year since Kyocera snapped up Sanyo's cellphone business in a bid to expand its mobile empire, but it looks like the company is already being forced to reorganize its handset businesses into something leaner and, it hopes, meaner. The biggest shake-up comes in the company's U.S. offices, which will now be focused exclusively sales, support, and business development, leaving all the handset design to be done at its Kyocera Wireless and Sanyo Telecom units in Japan, which themselves will be further consolidated in an effort to "enhance the efficiency and competitiveness of the combined global handset business," according to company President Rodney Lanthorne. All of that will result in the loss of some 360 jobs, most of which will come from Kyocera's operations in San Diego and Chatsworth, California, as well as its subsidiary in Bangalore, India.[Via Phone Scoop]
wow
didnt amp'd have some kyocera phones
im starting to see a trend xD
Why do they call it kyocera? because when you see it, youll cut 360 jobs and walk away.
I had a kyocera kx1 a few years ago....for the time it wasn't bad since I had yet to discover good phones.
but looking back.....what a legendary pos
The best thing that could happen is that Kyocera shuts down and we don't have to have anyone suffering with them anymore.
Speaking from personal experience, they make some of the finest, highest duarbility (low maintenance cost) laser printers and are a major player in solar and materials sciences. No thanks, I'd love to keep them around.
Speaking from experience. Our Kyocera Mita was a huge lump of garbage and the paid tech support ended up giving up. They stopped filling the support calls. We couldn't pay the lease off and return it. So we had to store it in our office till the lease ran out. What a piece of garbage company all around.
Suffering is only what they heap upon America (by way of Virgin Mobile and Verizon)- Japan gets all the good stuff.
Apple invented the worst battery solution ever.
It gets drained three times as fast as the battery of every other phone even though iPhones lack basic features such as front camera or modem function for laptops( even if wired and plugged in aUSB port), and once its puny battery is drained (which happens in no time) you can't even replace it with a charged battery: LOL, you must change all the stupid phone or take a nap while "jesus phone" takes its (long) time to recharge.
Anyway Apple is not going to give dam anytime soon, they know that lots of idiots are going to lap up whatever they are gonna puke out of Cupertino if it's packed , hyped, and marketed so that all those poor illiterate are convinced that they are going to look cool sporting their cheap crapphone (at least until they actually try to do anything else than voice calls)
my dad was one of those 360 :(
sorry to hear. Times are tough all around these days. Doesn't help to have armchair quarterback commenters write on these blogs how much they wish companies would die. A little sympathy would be nice.
Yea its pretty tough here in Japan too...
With the yen sitting at 88 to the dollar down from 120 to the dollar companies are struggling.
interest rate is at 0. The company is running deficits... THey dont really have anywhere to turn... Just hoping someone else can pull them out of the hole that wall street and america created.
Kyocera is a great company. There Japanese handsets are some of the best - Im glad they joined with Sanyo because im sure you will see some of the Japanese cellphone technology finally heading to the states.
Now if only americans would realise that they have F**KED the world with their poor leadership, poor lending and immoral behaviour they might learn a little... Dont blame anyone but yourselves. If this was asia (asian crisis in the 1990's you would be all over the asians asking for resignations, opening of free trade borders, but noooo no such talk. America and its free trade people are two faced. Still looking forward to your recovery howerver)
As an American, I voted you up!
They need to rethink everything. Their business model, design team, marketing team, the carriers they choose to feature their phones, and quality. Either they change or die.
Yes. How about selling their Japanese stuff in America for a start instead of the cheap outsourced crap they currently heap upon us?