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AlcatelAlcatel-Lucent is a multinational company that provides hardware, software, and services to telecommunications service providers and enterprises all over the globe. The company is incorporated in France, and has its executive offices in Paris and its North American regional executive offices in Murray Hill, New Jersey. The company does business in 132 countries, with almost equal sales distribution coming from both its European and North American regions, and an additional third of its channel located elsewhere in the world. Alcatel-Lucent was formed after the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies on December 1, 2006.
History
May 31, 1898 French engineer Pierre Azaria sets up the Compagnie Générale d'Electricité (CGE) with the aim of of taking on the likes of AEG, Siemens and General Electric.
1925 Absorption by CGE of Compagnie Générale des Câbles de Lyon.
1928 Setting up of Alsthom by Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques and Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston.
1966 Absorption by CGE of the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Atomiques, de Télécommunications et d'Electronique (Alcatel).
1970 Ambroise Roux becomes CGE's chairman. At the end his term, he remains honorary chairman until his death in 1999.
1982 Jean-Pierre Brunet becomes CGE's chairman.
1984
Georges Pebereau becomes CGE's chairman.
Thomson CSF's public telecommunication and business communication operations are merged into a holding company Thomson Télécommunications, which is taken over by the CGE group.
Câbles de Lyon buys Thomson Jeumont Câbles and Kabeltel under the CGE-Thomson agreements.
1985 Alsthom Atlantique changes its name to Alsthom.
Merger between CIT-Alcatel and Thomson Télécommunications. The new entity adopts the name Alcatel.
1986 Setting up of Alcatel NV following an agreement with ITT Corporation, which sells its European telecommunications activities to CGE.
Pierre Suard becomes CGE's chairman.
CGE buys into Framatome (40%).
Câbles de Lyon becomes a subsidiary of Alcatel NV.
1987 Privatization of CGE.
Alsthom wins an order to supply equipment for the TGV Atlantique network and leads the consortium of French, Belgian and British companies involved in the building of the northern TGV network.
1988 Link-up of Alsthom and General Electric Company (UK).
Merger of Alsthom's activities and GEC's Power Systems division into a joint company.
1989 Agreement between CGE and General Electric Company and setting up of GEC Alsthom.
CGEE-Alsthom changes its name to Cegelec.
1990 CGE-Fiat agreement. Alcatel takes over Telettra and Fiat acquires a majority stake in CEAC.
Acquisition by Câbles de Lyon of Câbleries de Dour (Belgium) and Ericsson's US cable operations.
Agreement on Framatome's capital structure, with CGE holding a 44.12% stake.
1991 Compagnie Générale d'Electricité changes its name to Alcatel Alsthom.
Purchase of the transmission systems division of the American group Rockwell Technologies.
Câbles de Lyon becomes Alcatel Cable and takes over AEG Kabel.
1992 Alcatel Alsthom acquired AEG Kabel (subsequently renamed Kabel Rheydt), a leading cable manufacturer in Germany, thereby strengthening its presence in this region.
1993 Acquisition of STC Submarine Systems, a division of Northern Telecom Europe (today Nortel Networks).
1995 Serge Tchuruk becomes chairman and CEO of Alcatel Alsthom. He restructures the company focusing on telecommunications.
1998 Alcatel Alsthom is renamed Alcatel.
Acquisition of the American DSC which has a solid position in the US access market
Initial public offering of GEC ALSTHOM which becomes Alstom. Alcatel retains 24% in the newly-formed company.
Alcatel sells Cegelec to Alstom.
1999 Acquisition of the American companies Xylan, Packet Engines, Assured Access and Internet Devices, specialised in Internet network and solutions.
Alcatel raises its participation in Thomson CSF (now Thales) to 25,3% and reduces its participation in Framatome to 8,6 %.
2000 Acquisition of the Canadian Newbridge, worldwide leader in ATM technology networks.
Acquisition of the American company Genesys, worldwide leader in contact centers.
Acquisition of Innovative Fibers-world leader in DWDM optical filters.
The Cable activities are subsidized and renamed Nexans.
2001 Sale of its 24% share in Alstom
IPO of a significant part of Cables & Components business (Nexans activity). Alcatel keeps 20% of Nexans shares.
Acquisition of the remaining 48.83% stake held in Alcatel Space by Thales, bringing Alcatel's ownership of Alcatel Space to 100%. After this transaction, Alcatel's stake in Thales decreased from 25.29% to 20.03%.
Disposal of 4.2% stake in Thales
Selling of 2.2% participation in Areva
Sale of DSL modems activity to Thomson Multimedia
2002 Acquisition of Astral Point Communications Inc., a US company and front-runner in next generation SONET Metro Optical Systems
Disposal of Alcatel's microelectronics activities to STMicroelectronics
Sale of its remaining share in Thomson
Alcatel acquires control of Alcatel Shanghai Bell
Alcatel completes the acquisition of the Telera Corporation.
Sale of 10.3 million Thales shares (Alcatel's shareholding in Thales from 15.83% to 9.7%)
Sale of 1.5 million Nexans shares (Alcatel's shareholding in Nexans from 20% to 15%)
2003
Sale of 50% shareholding in Atlinks, a manufacturer of residential telephones, to Thomson, Alcatel's joint venture partner.
Acquisition of iMagicTV, a Canadian supplier of software products and services that enable service providers to create, deliver and manage digital television and media services over broadband networks.
Acquisition of TiMetra Inc., a privately held, Silicon Valley-based company that produces routers (devices that interconnect computer networks and move information from one network to another).
Sale of Alcatel's optical components business to Avanex
Sale of SAFT Batteries subsidiary to Doughty Hanson
Alcatel and Draka to create a world leader in optical fiber and communication cables
2004
Sale of SAFT, a subsidiary of the Group that specialized in battery operations, to Doughty Hanson.
Alcatel and TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited formed a joint venture mobile handset company. The joint venture company is 55% owned by TCL and 45% owned by Alcatel.
Alcatel and Draka Holding N.V. ("Draka") combined their respective global optical fiber and communication cable businesses. Draka owns 50.1% and Alcatel owns 49.9% of the new company, Draka Comteq B.V.
Alcatel acquired privately held, U.S.-based eDial Inc., a leading provider of conferencing and collaboration services for businesses and telephone companies.
Alcatel sold 7.1 million Avanex shares, bringing the Group's stake in this company to below 20%.
Alcatel completed the acquisition of the privately held, U.S.-based Spatial Communications (known as Spatial Wireless), a leading provider of software-based and multi-standard distributed mobile switching solutions.
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2005
2005 was a record year for Alcatel in terms of results, contracts, events, and agreements of all kinds.
International Lawsuit and Controversy
Alcatel is seriously questioned in Costa Rica due to bribes to high ranking government officials particularly in the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) -the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity- to persuade them to purchase the country's cellular telephone network from them. The issue is still outstanding in Costa Rica's highest courts. Also, there are other issues standing due to the low quality of the equipment and signal of the mentioned equipment.
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