China Telecom Deploys Alcatel-Lucent's IMS Solutions in Shanghai and Shandong Province

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, February 15, 2010 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has
been selected by China Telecom to deploy IMS trial networks in Shanghai and
Shandong province. Alcatel-Lucent's end-to-end IMS solution will enable China
Telecom to build a next generation core infrastructure in order to evolve its
network and to provide advanced multimedia services. With the two wins which
were secured through Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, Alcatel-Lucent's flagship
company in China, Alcatel-Lucent has become the sole supplier of IMS
solutions to Shandong Telecom, and a major supplier to Shanghai Telecom for
Shanghai Expo 2010.

To satisfy the highly demanding telecom services at Shanghai Expo 2010,
Shanghai Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent to customize many of its
innovative applications, in particular, video services, including EV-DO video
call, video share, video customer service, multimedia ringback tone and click
to dial. The project will serve as a benchmark for China Telecom in Southern
China in deploying IMS solutions for value added services

Liu Ping, the General Manager of Shandong Telecom commented, "The reason
why we chose Alcatel-Lucent as our partner in this trial, is because we can
leverage Alcatel-Lucent's strong and localized IMS R&D team to develop and
customize the data and video services and featured industry applications to
meet the requirement of Shandong telecom market. We believe our cooperation
with Alcatel-Lucent is a Win-Win partnership, and will help us take the
leading position in the new 3G service market."

Alcatel-Lucent will provide its industry-leading IMS solution to enable
rich and unified communication, Web 2.0, Rich Communication Suite, and video
and telephony services. In addition to traditional VoIP, enablers and
applications such as presence, network address book, fixed/mobile convergence
support, multimedia instant messaging (including SMS, text and video),
softphone/PC client and video and file share extend service offerings into
the Internet domain.

"Alcatel-lucent has been a long-term partner for China Telecom in various
areas," said Romano Valussi, President of Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell,
"China Telecom's selection of our IMS solution further confirms
Alcatel-lucent's leading position in IMS market."

Worldwide, Alcatel-Lucent has more than 45 core IMS customers and has
supplied IMS services and servers to more than 60 clients.

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted
transformation partner of service providers, enterprises, strategic
industries such as defense, energy, healthcare, transportation, and
governments worldwide, providing solutions to deliver voice, data and video
communication services to end-users. A leader in fixed, mobile and converged
broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services,
Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivalled technical and scientific expertise of
Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications
industry. With operations in more than 130 countries and the most experienced
global services organization in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local
partner with a global reach. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 15.2
billion in 2009 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located
in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet:
www.alcatel-lucent.com

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