Alcatel

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Alcatel
Industry Telecommunications
Founded1970 [lower-alpha 1]
Defunct2006
FateMerged
Successor Alcatel-Lucent
Website alcatel.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2000-12-14)
History of companies which merged into Alcatel Gen Alcatel2006.gif
History of companies which merged into Alcatel

Alcatel was a French telecommunications company.

In 2006, it merged together with Lucent Technologies into Alcatel-Lucent. [1]

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History

Notes

  1. The company Alcatel was founded in 1970, but companies that merged into it were founded as early as 1898

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