Paris, October 5, 2007 —Following today's stories in the media, Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU), would like to state that:

“We continue to be a critical W-CDMA supplier to AT&T. Our market share has remained relatively stable and we continue to work to meet our commitments to maintain our market share. To speculate otherwise is both inaccurate and misleading.

We have signed a significant part of the W-CDMA contracts awarded since the beginning of 2007 (including SFR– the number two French mobile operator with more than 18M subs, SoftBank– a leading mobile operator in Japan, as well as ANCEL, Globacom, and Telecom New Zealand). We were one of the first worldwide to demonstrate and introduce HSUPA commercially with Mobilkom in Austria. Recently, HSUPA introduction with Alcatel-Lucent was as well announced by both SFR and Orange."

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