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News - Ben Verwaayen

2011-04-20 01:07:00

PARIS and BEIJING, April 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and China Mobile today announced a wide-ranging joint memorandum of understanding to pursue pioneering developments in next generation mobile communications including further co-development around Alcatel-Lucent's powerful lightRadio technology.

2010-11-04 02:04:00

PARIS, November 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Rising Demand for New Technologies in all Geographies - Full- 2010 Outlook Maintained Year Key Numbers for the Third Quarter 2010 - Revenues of Euro 4.074 billion, up 10.5% year-over-year, up 6.8% sequentially - Adjusted2 gross profit of Euro 1.377 billion or 33.8% of revenues - Adjusted2 operating income1 of Euro 61 million or 1.5% of revenues - Operating cash flow3 of Euro 193 million - Net (debt)/cash of Euro (190) million as of September 30, 2010 Executive Commentary Ben Verwaayen, CEO, commented: "I am pleased with the good progress made in our transformation journey, highlighted with healthy sales and improved profitability this quarter.

2010-06-24 04:08:00

PARIS, June 24, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced it has been selected as a strategic supplier for the rollout of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) - the largest single infrastructure investment in Australian history and a platform to drive and enable Australia's digital economy. The NBN Co has committed an initial Aus$70M fixed price purchase and has also committed to spend up to $1.5bn on this highly specialised network equipment during the lifetime of this project. Alcatel-Lucent will provide state-of-the-art GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) equipment, aggregation and engineering assistance to the National Broadband Network Company (NBNCo).

2010-06-08 07:27:00

- CEO Ben Verwaayen leads new CSR Council formed to increase dialogue with external stakeholders as a step toward becoming best in class - Acted on Bell Labs research showing networks could be thousands of times more energy efficient, as one of the founding members of the GreenTouch(TM) consortium - Reinforced action plan and monitoring to drastically reduce environmental impact of operations, meeting 2010 carbon emission reduction goal in 2009 - Enhanced assessments of vendors to ensure eco-sustainable and CSR practices - Alcatel-Lucent Foundation programs supported some 21,000 students in 17 countries and encouraged volunteerism among employees Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) issued its 2009 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report [http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/csr/csr-report/2009-en/inbrief/index.html], which gives an update on the company's actions to operate as a responsible and involved corpor

2010-01-05 03:59:00

PARIS, January 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU), will hold a press conference in London on January 11, 2010 at 2:30 p.m. GMT (3:30 p.m. CET/9:30 a.m.

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