MTS, one of Russia’s Big Three mobile operators, is going to lay off workers in its Ural branch. UrBC found out that about forty local employees have already received letters notifying them of the redundancies.

MTS announced early in March 2010 that the Ural branch’s call center would be relocated from Yekaterinburg to Samara in order to reduce the company’s outgoings. The workers were informed about the changes two months before these changes came into full effect.

MTS’s Ural branch currently employs about 600 people.