KPN unit outsources activities to Alcatel-Lucent
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E-Plus, the German mobile phone unit of Dutch telecoms giant KPN, said Tuesday that it has signed an agreement for Alcatel-Lucent to take over a number of its network divisions.
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(InfoWorld) - Shareholders of Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc. approved the companies' merger plansÂ Thursday, clearing one of the last hurdles to a mammoth consolidation in the communications equipment business. The merger scraped by at Lucent's special shareholder meeting Thursday in Wilmington, Delaware. It required 50 percent of the vote and received 51.97 percent, according to spokesman John Skalko. Alcatel, meeting in Paris, required a two-thirds vote of shareholders. All resolutions related to the merger were approved by at least 85 percent of the Alcatel shareholders who voted, said Alcatel spokesman Charlie Guyer. The two networking and telecommunications equipment manufacturers announced their intention to merge in April. The combined entity will have annual revenue of around â¬21 billion (US$25 billion), based on the companies' 2005 financial results. Lucent Chief Executive Officer Patricia Russo will become CEO of the combined company, which is to be called Alcatel Lucent, while Alcatel CEO Serge Tchuruk will become a non-executive chairman. Lucent, based in Murray Hill, New Jersey, is incorporated in Delaware. The merged company will be based in Paris, Alcatel's hometown. Alcatel and Lucent expect that the merged entity will make annual cost savings of about â¬1.4 billion, around half of that from job cuts. They plan to cut 9,000 from their combined payroll of 88,000. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved the deal in June, and the European Commission gave its consent in July. The largest remaining obstacle is convincing the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. that the deal presents no threat to national security. To allay such fears, Lucent will set up a separate subsidiary run by U.S. citizens to handle sensitive research and development work for the U.S. government, while in France, Alcatel agreed to sell its satellite business to French aerospace electronics group Thales SA for similar reasons. The proposed deal has run into opposition from some investment companies and shareholders. Lucent announced on Friday it had settled two shareholder lawsuits that could have delayed Thursday's vote. Shares of both companies have fallen from their April levels, though they have made some gains in the past few weeks.
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The country's development incentives draw Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, Nokia Siemens, and Sprint Nextel.
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Customers who already purchase other services from KPN will receive a discount. Customers who have a phone subscription and ADSL internet connection through KPN pay just EUR 7,95 a month.
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(InfoWorld) - BT Group hopes to recycle some of its expertise from building a next-generation all-IP (Internet Protocol) network in the U.K. by offering consultancy services to network operators in other countries. The new business unit, 21C Global Venture, which is named after the operator's 21st Century Network (21CN) project,Â was announced WednesdayÂ during a press conference at the International Telecommunication Union Telecom World conference and exhibition in Hong Kong. The 21CN project is one of the most ambitious network overhauls of its kind in the world. BT is replacing its 16 legacy voice and data networks with a new network built entirely on IP technology. Last month, BTÂ connected the first 100 consumers to the next-generation networkÂ (NGN). By the end of the decade, the operator aims to have the bulk of the country's 30 million lines converted to IP. "We have acquired substantial know-how in planning, designing and building a NGN over the past few years," said Paul Reynolds, chief executive officer of BT Wholesale. "We can use this experience to help other operators around the world with their NGN plans." The new unit will compete with numerous consultancies and equipment manufacturers also vying for a chunk of the emerging NGN market. It will draw on a pool of in-house experts, including the engineers that designed the U.K. network, according to Karsten Lereuth, president of the Global Telecom Markets unit of the BT Global Services division. "We will pull in people from all of our units, depending on the area of expertise required by a customer, and will provide local support," Lereuth said. " BT Wholesale has around 500 customers in more than 100 countries, generating nearly half of the group's total revenue, according to Reynolds. In Honk Kong, BT also announced a maintenance service contract withÂ newly merged Alcatel-Lucent. As part of the contract, worth $350 million, Alcatel-Lucent will offer the operator a single point of contact for equipment maintenance and spare parts management. Telecom World runs through Friday.
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Subscribers of the company's Net phone service can get information on park locations, public transit, and so on.
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US / Poland : Lucent Technologies and Novatel Wireless announced that the two companies are supplying Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa Sp.
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InfoWorld - Alcatel-Lucent reported higher sales but a net loss for the fourth quarter due to a big writedown in its CDMA (code division multiple access) and IP (Internet protocol) multimedia services businesses.
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By Victoria Shannon  A cloud of uncertainty among the world's phone companies left Alcatel-Lucent with a heavy net loss Friday in its first quarterly report as the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker, and the company moved to eliminate thousands more jobs.
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Alcatel SA   completed its acquisition of Lucent Technologies Inc.  on Thursday, creating one of the world's biggest suppliers of network equipment for mobile phones and high-speed Internet.
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Verizon's Business unit launches a dedicated optical network business service.
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MURRAY HILL, NJ - Lucent Technologies has released a software upgrade for its wireless equipment that will allow operators to support high-speed data packet access (HSDPA) connections in 3G networks.
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Vodafone and EDS have deployed a global managed service for ABN AMRO Bank of the Netherlands, based on RIM&#39;s BlackBerry mobile email clients.
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Shareholders in French telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel and US group Lucent approved a merger of the two companies to create a giant valued at 21.5 billion euros (27 billion dollars).
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&quot;Its going to be the unique solution in terms of [next-generation networking] product for Alcatel,&quot; said Nathalie Smirnov, chief operating officer, mobile solutions division of Alcatel.
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By Izwan Ismail  FANCY having a phone that can switch between a Wi-Fi network and a GSM (global system for mobile communications) line? Alcatel- Lucent already has the solution to allow this new concept of enterprise communication to take place.
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(InfoWorld) - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications A.B. is setting up a research and development (R&D) unit for mobile phones in Chennai in south India. The handset maker announced earlier this year that it was outsourcing its manufacturing to the Chennai operations of Flextronics Corp. and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., which uses the brand name Foxconn. By having R&D teams in India, the company will be better able to tap into consumer behavior in local markets, Sony Ericsson said Wednesday. A number of mobile phone vendors are setting up manufacturing, R&D centers, and network operating centers in India, both to take advantage of Indiaâs low-cost labor, and also to target Indiaâs booming mobile phone market. India added 6.57 million mobile telephony subscribers in May this year, taking the total number of subscribers to 178 million, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in Delhi. This mobile telephony boom has translated into heavy demand for mobile phones. Over 62 million handsets have been sold in India in the last 12 months, according to internal estimates by Sony Ericsson. The company is targeting production of 10 million phones from India by 2009. The new facility will become part of Sony Ericssonâs global network of R&D units, currently comprised of sites in China, Japan, Sweden, the Netherlands, the U.S. and the U.K. The company did not, however, provide details of staffing or the nature of the work to be done at the new R&D facility.