Lucent's recent merger leads to company name change
Posted Aug 10th 2006 1:45PM by Brian White
Filed under: Cellular, Business
With the once-great American telecom company name now going away -- partially -- the new company f
ormed by the recent Alcatel and Lucent Technologies merger will lead to a company named "Alcatel Lucent", the companies announced today.
Without any fanfare (for obvious reasons), the new company, once the merger is completed and the integration starts, will become a powerful force in the telecom sector, including the wireless infrastructure sector as it takes Nokia Networks and LM Ericsson on head-to-head for wireless equipment sales and service.
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