Mobile phone giant Vodafone is expanding
existing customer service centres, with 800 additional posts in Manchester,
almost 150 in Newark, more than 150 in Stoke-on-Trent and about 100 in Glasgow,
it will create
2,100 jobs across the UK.
Its third-party customer service partners will
create another 600 jobs in Newcastle, nearly 200 roles in the west of Scotland,
and 100 in Cardiff.
The firm said the jobs would improve the
quality of service for its 18 million UK customers and was part of a wider,
three-year, £2bn investment programme in network and services.
"These new, skilled roles will make a real
difference to our customers and a real difference to the communities that are
the focus of our customer services investment," said Vodafone UK chief
executive Nick Jeffery
The regulator said Vodafone had misled pay-as-you-go
customers, charging them for top-up credit but "providing nothing in
return".
It also found Vodafone had broken the rules on
handling customer complaints. Vodafone said at the time it was "determined
to put everything right".At present Vodafone has around 12,500 members of
staff in the UK.
It has 3,700 workers in its UK customer care
operation, with 2,450 of those in-house and 1,250 with other partners. Vodafone
is one of our country's great international success stories and it's fantastic
this global organisation is demonstrating its confidence in the UK by creating
new jobs across the North, in the Midlands, in Scotland and in Wales,"
said Karen Bradley, secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
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