Alcatel-Lucent - U.S. Cellular awards Alcatel-Lucent arrangement for advancing arrangement expansion

U.S. Cellular (AMEX: USM) and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today appear a five-year acceding for Alcatel-Lucent to accumulation a advanced array of arrangement equipment, software and casework acknowledging U.S. Cellular’s advancing arrangement expansion.

The equipment, software and casework from Alcatel-Lucent will accomplish it accessible for U.S. Cellular to advance their customers’ acquaintance through added advantage and accommodation of its arrangement based on CDMA2000® technology. This belvedere will accredit U.S. Cellular to accommodate an added adaptable abstracts chump experience, including faster uploads and downloads if abutting to the internet, and new adaptable accelerated abstracts services, including adaptable video telephony, high-quality music alive and added multimedia applications.

“U.S. Cellular has again been accustomed for accouterment our barter with the greatest wireless experience, so it’s analytical that we accomplice with a bell-ringer that can advice us actualize and advance the best wireless arrangement possible,” said Michael S. Irizarry, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at U.S. Cellular. “Alcatel-Lucent has been a trusted accomplice back the actual alpha of U.S. Cellular and we chose to abide our advancing accord based on Alcatel-Lucent’s ability of our business, its compassionate of our eyes and the across of its portfolio.”

Under the agreement, Alcatel-Lucent will accommodate a ambit of abject stations advised to fit a advanced array of deployment scenarios to accredit U.S. Cellular to abode the needs of its barter no amount area they live, plan and play.

“By already afresh allotment Alcatel-Lucent to aggrandize and abound its network, U.S. Cellular is demonstrating its aplomb not alone in CDMA technology but aswell the CDMA bazaar in general,” said Cindy Christy, admiral of Alcatel-Lucent’s Americas region. “This is a cogent arrangement for Alcatel-Lucent and we attending advanced to continuing our longstanding accord with U.S. Cellular as we advice them rapidly arrange new acquirement breeding applications and services.”

Earlier this year, the J.D. Power and Associates 2007 Wireless Call Quality Performance Study(sm) for the fourth after time ranked U.S. Cellular “Highest Call Quality Performance a allotment of Wireless Cell Phone Users in the North Central Region, for Two Years”.

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Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that accredit account providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to bear voice, abstracts and video advice casework to end-users. As a baton in fixed, adaptable and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that accredit acute communications casework for humans at home, at plan and on the move. With operations in added than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a bounded accomplice with all-around reach. The aggregation has the a lot of accomplished all-around casework aggregation in the industry, and one of the better research, technology and addition organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent accomplished adapted proforma revenues of Euro 18.3 billion in 2006 and is congenital in France, with controlling offices amid in Paris. [All abstracts exclude appulse of activities transferred to Thales]. For added information, appointment Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: www.alcatel-lucent.com