Company Profile For Alcatel Lucent S.A.

Alcatel Lucent provides product offerings that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end users. It offers fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, Internet protocol (IP) technologies, applications and services. It has operations in more than 130 countries. The Company operates in three business segments: Carrier, Enterprise and Services. The Carrier segment supplies a portfolio of products and solutions used by fixed, wireless and convergent service providers, as well as enterprises and governments, for their business critical communications. This segment organized into seven business divisions: fixed access, Internet protocol (IP), optics, mobile access, code division multiple access (CDMA), applications and multicore. On October 7, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Motive, Inc. In July 2009, the Company acquired Velocix.

BRIEF: For the six months ended 30 June 2009, Alcatel-Lucent's total revenue decreased 6% to EUR7.5B. Net loss from continuing operations decreased 60% to EUR517M. Total revenue reflects decreased demand for the Company's products in the Carrier and Enterprise business segments as well as unfavorable markets conditions. Lower net loss from continuing operations reflects decreased interest expense and lower research and development costs.