Alcatel Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen has decided to cut back the number of outside consultants the company will use to find customer deals, a practice that has gotten some companies in hot water after the middlemen were found to have taken bribes from foreign countries. Indeed, a former Alcatel executive, Christian Sapsizian, pleaded guilty this past September to conspiring with a Costa Rican consulta...

Alcatel-Lucent, showing a deficit since seven quarters, is departing from a thousand leaders and five thousand contracted employees.

The rollout could lead to big business for the likes of Alcatel-Lucent and Motorola, but questions remain about which companies will get 3G contracts.

Following on from a previous post I made, we are now a bit clearer on what AlcaLu’s strategy is within Mobile…. CEO Ben Verwaayen has announced that the equipment vendor is going to lay off 1000 managers, and reduce contractors by 5000 as it aims to reverse seven consecutive quarterly losses. The company is aiming to

2008 Will be most remembered as the year the economy stopped aka Worst. Christmas. Ever. The year major vendors rebooted. CEO Pat Russo left Alcatel-Lucent

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viettel Telecom and Alcatel-Lucent and Research In Motion (RIM) have introduced...

Following Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen's announcement of a plan to return the company to profitability, Tim Krause, its chief marketing officer, gave more details in an interview with Telephony about how the company would achieve that, including being able to fit content to any user device. Article

Alcatel-Lucent said Friday it has agreed to sell its remaining 21-percent stake in defense contractor Thales SA to plane maker Dassault Aviation for euro1.57 billion ($2.3 billion) in an all-French deal.

PRESS RELEASE Ha Noi, Viet Nam, Paris, France and Waterloo, Ontario - Viettel, a leading mobile operator in Vietnam, Alcatel-Lucent and Research In Motion today announced the launch of the BlackBerry wireless solution in Vietnam. Using BlackBerry smartphones, Viettel customers will be able to wirelessly send and receive emails, make phone calls, browse the Internet, send text messages and access c...