As debt-laden telecom sector—weakened by deadly price wars—consolidates, job losses will mount. After a month, a number of Reliance Communications ( RCom ) employees could be looking for another job. The company is believed to be closing down major parts of its wireless business. The Tata Group is selling its mobile business to Bharti Airtel, which might lead to thousands losing jobs. According to an estimate, nearly 1 lakh direct and indirect jobs in telecom sector could vanish in near future. While telecom companies will lay off employees at all levels, the most at risk could be those at the middle level. Automation and emerging skills sets not only make many jobs at the middle level redundant, but the laid-off employees might find it difficult to get appropriate new jobs, again, for lack of new skills or jobs having been made scarce by automation and other new technologies. According to a staffing expert, most of the cuts will be in the te...