Alcatel said last week that it plans to buy some of Nortel Networks' wireless access infrastructure equipment for US$320 million in an effort to beef up its 3G wireless business in Europe and Asia.
Alcatel has announced a AU$7.5 million joint investment with the Australian government to upgrade m.Net Corporation's next-generation UMTS/WCDMA wireless network in Adelaide.
French telecoms technology provider Alcatel and US equipment firm Lucent Technologies on Sunday announced a merger agreement, creating a US$33 billion dollar giant in global telecommunications.
Despite making massive worldwide job cuts, the French communications company is to set up seven new 3G research labs, including one in Australia.
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Ray Gilbert, assistant vice president for IT enterprise collaboration at Alcatel Lucent, tells ZDNet.com editor-in-chief Dan Farber how the telecom services provider is addressing mobility needs and convergence challenges for the next generation of digital devices.
The Alcatel One Touch 735 is a reasonable mid-range mobile handset, let down by a very basic problem. Read our Australian review.
The Alcatel One Touch 320 lacks many of the features that grace modern mobile phones, but an ultra-low price point should appeal to people who just want to talk.
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