People - 24/09/06

SingTel names Chua Sock Koong as new CEO; it was previously head of its international business.

KPN will cut management by 300 people and hire 350 sales staff at its E-Plus mobile unit in Germany.

Iridium Satellite named Matthew Desch its new CEO, replacing Dan Colussy.

Nokia is planning to double the headcount at its new handset manufacturing facility in Madras, India, to 7,400.

ATT is said to hire some 2000 outsourced jobs in-house to increase technical support for DSL services.

Telefonica O2 in Germany plans to reshuffle its managment team. CFO Axel Salzmann and CMO Gerhard Mayrhofer will leave the company as of Oct. 1.