My Teamwork Singled Out for Outstanding Innovation DALLAS, July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alcatel (NYSE: ALA; Paris: CGEP.PA) announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's TMC Labs division named Alcatel's My Teamwork Land Mobile Radio Conferencing and Collaboration solution (LMRCC) as a 2006 Innovation Award winner from INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. Alcatel's My Teamwork Land Mobile Radio Conferencing and Collaboration solution facilitates real-time voice and data conferencing between geographically separated users, many having different types of radio equipment, during emergency situations. "Public safety and emergency response is a key concern of all communities today, and we are proud of the unique LMRCC solution we have developed to help communities bridge the communication gap between their various emergency response organizations," said Jean-Christophe Giroux, president of Alcatel's enterprise activities, "It's an honor to receive this award for what we believe is the industry's first software and standards-based integration connecting disparate radio and telephone devices with data networks to support large-scale voice conference and data collaboration sessions." "Alcatel has clearly demonstrated to the staff of TMC Labs that the Alcatel My Teamwork product is truly innovative in the burgeoning VoIP/IP telephony industry. Never before in this industry has there been a greater need to highlight the most inventive VoIP products and services," said Rich Tehrani, Group Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY. According to Tom Keating, CTO and TMC Labs Editorial Director, "The TMC Labs Innovation Awards are based solely upon the uniqueness of the company's offering or how pioneering the particular product is. It is not based on company revenue or number of products sold. It is based on the concept that Alcatel is innovative." Keating continued, "Alcatel deserves this great honor for creating a ground-breaking VoIP product. I look forward to seeing other innovative solutions from Alcatel as they continue to contribute to the future of the VoIP/IP telephony marketplace." The TMC Labs 2006 Innovation Award highlights will be published in the July 2006 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. About Alcatel Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers or employees. Alcatel brings its leading position in fixed and mobile broadband networks, applications and services, to help its partners and customers build a user-centric broadband world. With sales of EURO 13.1 billion and 58,000 employees in 2005, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel on the Internet: http://www.alcatel.com/ About TMC(R) Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 1,400 sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, VoIP Demo, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit http://www.tmcnet.com/ . (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) DATASOURCE: Alcatel CONTACT: press, Tracy Dupree, +1-818-878-4408, or , or Regine Coqueran, HQ, +33-0-1-40-76-49-24, or , or Mark Burnworth, HQ, +33-0-1-40-76-50-84, or , or investor relations, Pascal Bantegnie, +33-0-1-40-76-52-20, or , or Nicolas Leyssieux, +33-0-1-40-76-37-32, or , or Maria Alcon, +33-0-1-40-76-15-17, or , or Charlotte Laurent- Ottomane, +1-703-668-7016, or , all of Alcatel; or Andrew Katz of Technology Marketing Corporation, +1-203-852-6800 Ext 279, or Web site: http://www.alcatel.com/ http://www.tmcnet.com/

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