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Alcatel
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This article is about the original company in existence from 1970 to 2006. For its present-day successors and other uses of the name, see Alcatel (disambiguation).
Alcatel SA was a French telecommunications company.
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![]() Logo from 1987 until 2006. | |
Industry | Telecommunications |
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Founded | 1970[lower-alpha 1] |
Defunct | 2006 |
Fate | Merged |
Successor | Alcatel-Lucent |
Website | alcatel.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2000-12-14) |
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In 2006, it merged with Lucent Technologies to form Alcatel-Lucent.[1]