Alcatel-Lucent Captures IP Edge Router Lead in the Europe, Middle East and Africa Market

September 9th, 2009 PARIS - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU) will hold a live web press conference on Wednesday September 16, 2009 to announce groundbreaking technology which addresses the explosive growth in video traffic straining traditional core router networks. The web conference will take place September 16, 2009 at 7AM PST/ 10AM EST / 4PM CET and will be hosted by Basil Alwan, head of Alcatel-Lucent's Carrier Group portfolio strategy.

September 6th, 2009 PARIS, BROADBAND WORLD FORUM EUROPE - - Next-generation Wireline and Wireless Access Technologies Converge Seamlessly During this year's Broadband World Forum Europe, Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) not only shows that it masters next-generation wireline and wireless access. The company also highlights that Long Term Evolution (LTE) and next-generation passive optical networking (PON) technologies converge seamlessly for a smooth delivery of the most demanding, high-speed broadband services.

July 8th, 2009 PARIS - Ben Verwaayen, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and Paul Tufano, Chief Financial Officer will present the second quarter 2009 results on July 30, at 1:00 pm CET (12:00 pm GMT, 7:00 am EST). The press and analyst conference will be held in the company's headquarters, 54 rue La Boétie, Paris.

July 8th, 2009 PARIS - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU) will hold a live web press conference on Thursday July 16, 2009 to announce groundbreaking technology which addresses the explosive growth in video traffic. Alcatel-Lucent will also discuss its IP strategy and how it fits into the overall company direction.

May 28th, 2009 PARIS - The Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) annual ordinary and extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting held on May 29, 2009 approved all the proposed resolutions. Shareholders present or represented by proxy had in the aggregate a total of 1,152.6 million shares, which represented a quorum of 51.008 per cent.

May 13th, 2009 PARIS - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has been selected by Unitech Wireless to support the initial launch of the company's GSM/EDGE mobile service offering. Alcatel Lucent will deploy turn-key GSM/EDGE networks in Kerala and Orissa circles.

April 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has inked two framework agreements valued USD 1.7 billion in total with China Mobile and China Telecom, to provide network upgrades, integration and maintenance services in 2009. As the leading operators in China, China Mobile and China Telecom were granted 3G licenses in January 2009, for TD-SCDMA and CDMA/EV-DO technologies, respectively.

April 7th, 2009 PARIS - The Project Will Link Countries in Southern Africa, Western Africa and Europe, With High Capacity International Bandwidth The WACS consortium and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) have signed today a turnkey contract valued at several hundred million US dollars to deploy a new submarine cable network that will provide the first direct connection between Southern Africa and Europe. Named the West Africa Cable System (WACS), this 14,000 km-long submarine network system will bolster Internet and other communications capabilities to and from the African continent.

March 22nd, 2009 PARIS - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU), today announced an outsourcing contract with the mobile operator BASE, which is part of the KPN group. Through this agreement, Alcatel-Lucent will have end-to-end responsibility for all network operations and network rollout for BASE's network.

March 15th, 2009 PARIS - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that, according to data from Dell'Oro, it has considerably strengthened its quarterly, year-over-year market position in the Service Provider Edge Router market segment. Dell'Oro data shows that in the second half of 2008, Alcatel-Lucent continued to grow in the edge router segment - gaining more than three percentage points to reach 17.6 percent market share - while the other top-three vendors either dropped significantly or were flat.

August 11th, 2009 Nu Horizons becomes an Alcatel-Lucent distributorNEW YORK — Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. said Tuesday that it has been named a master distributor for Alcatel-Lucent telephone and networking services in North America.

August 11th, 2009 Nu Horizons named Alcatel-Lucent distributorNEW YORK — Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. said Tuesday that it has been named a master distributor in North America for Alcatel-Lucent telephony and networking solutions.

July 23rd, 2009 Alcatel-Lucent details job cuts planPARIS — Alcatel-Lucent SA aims to cut 850 jobs in France as part of a plan to save several hundred million euros (dollars) this year, the company said Thursday. The telecommunications network equipment maker told French employees the job cuts would be made over this year and next.

June 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Telecom equipment manufacturer Alcatel Lucent has entered into a 10-year agreement with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to market telecom and IT products and services, it was announced Thursday. As per the agreement, the companies will jointly market communication solutions among mid and large-size enterprises and public sector units through one-stop-shop business model, a joint statement said.

May 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - French telecom infrastructure firm Alcatel-Lucent Friday said it had bagged a $150 million contract from Unitech Wireless to support its launch of GSM operations. Unitech Wireless is a joint venture between real estate major Unitech Ltd and Norwegian telecom giant Telenor.

May 5th, 2009 Alcatel-Lucent net loss widens in 1QPARIS — Alcatel-Lucent's net loss widened in the first quarter as sales of both wireless and wireline communications gear continued to fall in all major markets amid the global economic downturn. The world's third-largest supplier of wireless networking equipment for telecom operators and companies blamed tough market conditions and continued restructuring for the shortfall — its ninth consecutive quarterly loss since Alcatel-Lucent was created in 2006.

July 30th, 2009 Alcatel-Lucent makes 1st profit since 2006 mergerPARIS — Alcatel-Lucent surprised its investors Thursday by posting its first profit since the company's creation in a trans-Atlantic merger in 2006, as gains on asset sales helped the telecommunications equipment maker's bottom line. The Paris-based company reported a net profit of euro14 million ($19.6 million) for the April through June period, compared to a net loss of euro1.1 billion a year earlier, when earnings were hit by a nearly billion-euro writedown on wireless technology assets.

April 16th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - India's Tata Communications Thursday said they had joined a global consortium to build a $600-million cable system to extend faster international connectivity to countries in Africa at cheaper tariff. The network, expected to be ready by 2011, will cover South Africa, Namibia, Angola, the two Congos, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Cape Verde, Canary Islands, Portugal and Britain, a company statement said.

September 9th, 2009 Morgan Stanley's Makhoul is leaving firmNEW YORK — Morgan Stanley said Wednesday its president of Middle East and North Africa operations, Georges Makhoul, is leaving the bank. Habib Achkar will take on the role of regional manager for the New York-based bank's Middle East and North Africa operations.

July 20th, 2009 Netgear to help Internet subscribers measure useNEW YORK — How many gigabytes do you consume per month? Not many people can answer that question, complicating the efforts of Internet service providers to get their subscribers to stay below a certain amount of data per month. In August, Netgear Inc.