Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen: No Words for Huawei

Light Reading's broadband video interview, the third in a three-part series, debuts today

NEW YORK, January 29 - TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the leading
research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace,
today announced that the third segment of its broadband video interview with
Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen is online, right here:
www.lightreading.com/video.asp?doc_id=187243

The Alcatel-Lucent chief tells Light Reading's International Managing
Editor, Ray Le Maistre, that Alcatel-Lucent's professional services and its
capabilities in IP and optical networking integration are top-notch. And,
while he wouldn't comment on foreign competitors, it's apparent that he feels
Alcatel-Lucent has plenty to offer the market, even with all the changes
taking place in the networks of its biggest customers.

The third interview concludes our series of chats with Mr. Verwaayen. The
first interview in the series is available right here:
www.lightreading.com/video.asp?doc_id=186976

The second interview in the series is available right here:
www.lightreading.com/video.asp?doc_id=187126

    Contact:
    Amy Averbook
    Light Reading
    +1-212-600-3373
    averbook@lightreading.com

About Light Reading

Founded in 2000, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) is the
leading online media, research, and focused event company serving the US$3
trillion worldwide communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate
source for technological and financial analysis of the communications
industry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and
reputation. Light Reading's research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid
Research, provide the most comprehensive communications research, market
data, and technology analysis in close to 100 markets around the world. Light
Reading produces nearly 20 targeted communications events including TelcoTV,
and TelcoTV Asia, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet Europe, and The Tower
Summit @ CTIA, as well as focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile,
and wireline executives in the US, Europe, India, and China. Light Reading
was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and operates as a unit
of TechWeb.

About TechWeb

TechWeb (techweb.com/aboutus), the global leader in business
technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of
technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most
respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today,
more than 13.3 million* business technology professionals actively engage in
our communities created around our global face-to-face events, Interop, Web
2.0, Black Hat, and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network,
Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and
The Financial Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning
InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, and Wall Street &
Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services including
next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and
analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global
provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a
market capitalization of more than US$2.5 billion.

*13.3 million business decision-makers: based on number of monthly
connections

About United Business Media Limited

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information
distribution, targeting, and monitoring; and the development and monetisation
of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve
professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from
journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integrated
events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in
more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these
communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do
business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more
information, go to www.unitedbusinessmedia.com.

Amy Averbook, Light Reading, +1-212-600-3373, averbook at lightreading.com