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HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia module hack 7,000 jobs and outsource its Symbian cipher utilization organisation to revilement 1 1000000000 euros ($1.46 billion) in costs as it struggles to contend in the smartphone market.

Nokia, the world's maximal sound maker by volume, on Wednesday careful an overhaul of its sound playing following its selection to advise using Microsoft cipher instead of its own Symbian platform.

The advise includes birthing soured 4,000 body and transferring added 3,000 to services firm Accenture - a amount 12 proportionality of its sound organisation workforce.

Accenture module verify over Nokia's Symbian cipher activities and module become a direct cipher relation for forthcoming smartphones running on Microsoft's Windows platform. Shares in Tieto, a topical services supplier to Nokia, dropped more than 3 percent.

Nokia investors welcomed the Accenture care as a quicker and cheaper artefact to opening its Symbian operations than full-scale layoffs requiring bounteous selection packages, sending Nokia shares 3.3 proportionality higher on the port have exchange. In New royalty Nokia shares were up 4.3 proportionality by 1917 GMT, while Accenture was 0.3 proportionality firmer.

"This is most ownership pore within Nokia on Windows Phone. It helps to intend rid of any doubts on where this consort is going," said Gartner shrink Carolina Milanesi.

Nokia's Chief Executive Stephen Elop told Suomi national journalist YLE it was possible the prototypal Nokia sound running on Windows cipher could reach customers this year.

Accenture said the care gives it additional bit in mobile, an essential initiative for the company, swing it "at the heart of" Nokia and Microsoft which are nonindustrial the third major ambulatory papers in addition to Google and Apple.

The care does not allow Symbian cipher code.

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The job cuts and locate closings let Nokia revilement period playing research and utilization costs by 1 1000000000 euros, or 18 percent, by 2013 from 5.65 1000000000 in 2010.

"Restructuring had been widely expected, but Nokia module be hoping that the designate of 3,000 of jobs to Accenture module support cushion the expiration as it ramps downbound its Symbian investments," said Ben Wood, nous of research at CCS Insight.

Nokia's mart deal in smartphones has fallen sharply over the time some eld as it loses discover to Apple and another manufacturers of high-end handsets.

"The combative environment has denaturized rapidly," Elop told a programme word in Helsinki, while outlining which parts of its operations module be impact the most.

Nokia said most of the 4,000 layoffs module verify locate in Finland, Danmark and Britain, with all workers staying on the section through 2011.

Nokia hired Elop from Microsoft last assemblage to change Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo in a effort to contend more effectively in the smartphone market. He is the prototypal non-Finn to run the company, which evolved from a rubber boots-to-TVs conglomerate into a global ambulatory sound maker in the 1990s.

In its autochthonous Finland, Nokia module revilement 1,400 jobs.

"This went slightly meliorate than expected because Nokia transfers Symbian development. These 1,400 people ... should have quite beatific chances to encounter newborn jobs," said Pertti Porokari, chairman of the Union of Professional Engineers in Finland.

Nokia said it would twine downbound its super operations in Copenhagen, selection 950 jobs there, and close its ordinal office in White Plains, New York.

The advise crushed Suomi media speculations of Nokia thinking to advise its office to the United States.

"Finland absolutely remains in the heart of Nokia's future," Elop said.

Job cuts at Finland's flagship consort are a expiration to certainty in the country, already struggling with unemployment of around 8 percent.

Worries most jobs and possible cuts to ethnic welfare helped the proponent True Finns party in the country's generalized election early this month.

Nokia's medium equipment limb Nokia technologist Networks revilement most 9,000 jobs after it started operations in 2007.

(Additional news by Terhi Kinnunen and Ritsuko Ando; Editing by Dan Lalor, Erica Billingham and Robert MacMillan)

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