Paris, April 17, 2007 — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is pleased to recognize two business partners, Plexus Com/Group and LightRiver, as the winners of the first annual 2006 Breakthrough Partner award for Alcatel-Lucent in North America. The Breakthrough Partner award recognizes partners who exemplify the Alcatel-Lucent vision of convergence and expanded solution selling.

Plexus Com/Group, with headquarters in Baltimore, MD was recognized for delivering significant year-over-year revenue growth in 2006 - more than triple their 2005 business - by expanding its sales across the Alcatel-Lucent solutions offering. Among other achievements, Plexus also added a focus in key vertical markets including state and local government and higher education to their traditional education market reach.

Additionally, LightRiver Technologies, based in Lafayette, CA, was recognized for their innovative and superior customer outreach and for their achievements in customer satisfaction and revenue growth. LightRiver serves its customers with a wide offering of solutions from network design, training, installation and integration, testing and more. Through their “client central” portal, each customer can log into a private LightRiver website to view their network functionality, see trouble ticket status and a complete history of their relationship with Lightriver.

“Both Plexus and LightRiver have been instrumental in spreading Alcatel-Lucent’s end-to-end solution message,” said Carmen Sorice vice president of Channel Sales for Alcatel-Lucent’s activites in North America. “Plexus has demonstrated a significant increase in Alcatel-Lucent sales in 2006 that could only come from embracing our tools to provide innovative solutions, and deliver best in class services to their customers. And similarly, LightRiver is unique in providing their customers innovative support from design to installation. They view each customer relationship as a vital element in their growing business and this philosophy shows in everything they do.”

About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved adjusted proforma revenues of Euro 18.3 billion in 2006 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. [All figures exclude impact of activities transferred to Thales]. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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