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Economy

DJT says Sprint will bring 5k jobs back to the US; OneWeb will create 3k jobs

2016-12-29

[CNBC] President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that Sprint will bring 5,000 jobs back to the United States from overseas, while another company OneWeb will add 3,000 jobs in the U.S.

Trump said the deal "was done through" SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, a Japanese billionaire and technology investor. Earlier this month, the pair announced in New York that SoftBank agreed to invest $50 billion in the U.S. and aimed to create 50,000 jobs.

While President-Elect Trump made a point to announce Sprint would keep or create 5,000 jobs in the U.S., those jobs are part of a previously-announced deal with SoftBank from several weeks ago, a Sprint spokesman told NBC News.

"The 5,000 jobs announced today are part of the 50,000 jobs that Masa Son (Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of SoftBank) announced a few weeks ago, but these jobs will be funded by Sprint," the Sprint spokesman said.

Posted by:Besoeker

#5 8K jobs.

In a surprising development 6 months after the inauguration, both companies will suddenly announce that they require 8k H1B visas, because neither company can find a single american qualified to do the job.

Who wants to lay odds on this?

Posted by: Nguard 2016-12-29 15:14

#4 #2 and #3 both correct. Amusing times ahead...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-12-29 12:03

#3 not to consider our psyche with their off time babbling and extra curricula activities
You dreamer, you! CGI will next be used to generate virtual celebrities that babble and carry on. Remember, you read it on the 'Burg first.

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-12-29 11:34

#2 If tech gets a couple better levels in CGI, maybe we can do away with actors altogether. Think of the savings for the studios (not to consider our psyche with their off time babbling and extra curricula activities).

Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-12-29 09:38

#1 Tech support is a tailor made AI job, as patience and thoroughness are the keys. If the speech recognition is good enough and the speech generation is not the usual unintelligible mosh that's typical now, tech support will be the first really successful human interacting AI replacement for people.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-12-29 09:30

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