New Delhi, June 16 -- Canada's largest telecommunications company has found another 690 jobs it can do without. BCE, the parent of Bell, told staff on Monday it would cut roughly one per cent of its workforce, CBC News reported, the latest round in a restructuring that has been quietly shrinking the company since late last year while management talks about growth.

fewer people on the payroll. Bell Media, the broadcasting arm, was spared this round, CTV's CP24 reported.

Bell frames the cuts in the language of engineering rather than retrenchment. As it migrates customers onto what it calls a more resilient, easier-to-maintain fibre network, the company says it simply needs fewer hands to run the older systems being switched off, and it i...