Lucent Technologies
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"Lucent" redirects here. For the company following its acquisition by Alcatel SA in 2006, see Alcatel-Lucent.
Lucent Technologies, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies business unit of AT&T Corporation, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs.[2]
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Company type | Public |
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NYSE: LU[1] | |
Industry | Telecommunications equipment |
Predecessor | Western Electric Bell Labs AT&T Technologies |
Founded | September 30, 1996; 27 years ago (1996-09-30) |
Defunct | 2006; 18 years ago (2006) |
Fate | Merged with Alcatel SA |
Successor | Alcatel-Lucent |
Headquarters | , United States |
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Revenue | US$9.44 billion (2005) |
Number of employees | 30,500 (2006) |
Website | lucent.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2005-02-16) |
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Lucent was merged with Alcatel SA of France on December 1, 2006, forming Alcatel-Lucent.[3] Alcatel-Lucent was absorbed by Nokia in January 2016.