S-A cuts jobs at Mexican plant

Due to sluggishness in the set-top market, Scientific-Atlanta Inc. has eliminated
1,300 jobs in its Juarez, Mexico, set-top-box plant.

The job-cutting may not be over.

S-A said it is "evaluating the need for any additional restructuring in other
parts of the company due to reduced demand for our products."

Hopes that set-top boxes would start flying off retail-store shelves have
been dashed by pricing and encryption issues that some executives, including at
S-A, said could keep them off consumer-electronics store shelves for
years.

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.