People - 16/12/06

TPSA (Poland) will cut up to 5,700 jobs over the next three years.

Lawrence Babbio, vice-chairman and president of Verizon, will retire in March 07.

Gary Forsee is the new chairman of Sprint Nextel,as Tim Donahue retires as executive chairman at the end of this month.

Len Lauer, former Sprint Nextel’s operations chief, has been hired by Qualcomm as corporate executive vice president, in charge of the Wireless Business Solutions division, MEMS Technologies, Government Technologies and MediaFLO USA.

Sanjay Jha (Qualcomm) has been named COO.

AOL has slashed 450 workers in the US, as part of a 5,000 job cuts worldwide plan announced in August.