T-Mobile, recovering from the FCC's shooting down of its proposed $39 billion merger with AT&T, announced in March that call center consolidation would . One AT&T official blamed the not to OK the deal for the T-Mobile layoffs. 

another 350 jobs cuts in May. 

Rival Sprint said in February that it would slash jobs in the wake of a January management reshuffling, and according to a FierceWireless report at the time, the number of jobs affected was expected to be about . Related, Sprint network operator Ericsson reportedly in March, weeding out its lowest performers. 

Other big bloodlettings this year from technology ranks:

*The job cuts cited above pale in comparison to via layoffs and retirement offers, which translates into about 27,000 jobs. The company expects the cuts to save it $3 billion to $3.5 billion in fiscal year 2014. The job cuts are "difficult" but they also are "necessary to improve execution and to fund long-term health" of HP, CEO Meg Whitman said in a statement.