DALLAS, July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alcatel (NYSE: ALA; Paris: CGEP.PA) announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R))'s Communications Solutions magazine online (http://www.tmcnet.com/comsol ) has named Alcatel's My Teamwork with video conferencing as a recipient of its 2005 Product of the Year Award. "As part of Alcatel's OmniTouch Unified Communications Suite, My Teamwork takes enterprise collaboration to the next level, providing the presence-aware multimedia conferencing and collaboration capabilities which are required by today's businesses and employees," said Jean-Christophe Giroux, president of Alcatel's enterprise activities. "The ease of hosting and offering a feature- rich multimedia collaboration tool like Alcatel's browser-based My Teamwork simplifies conferencing and collaboration for employees and eliminates third- party conferencing costs. We are excited to receive this award, which further recognizes the vast functionality of Alcatel's My Teamwork solution." "Each year Communications Solutions magazine bestows Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. Alcatel has demonstrated to the editors of Communications Solutions that its products or services have gone the extra mile to help improve both the customer experience and the ROI for the companies that use them," said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions. The Product of the Year Award winners for 2005 were announced in the May 2006 issue of Communications Solutions magazine online (http://www.tmcnet.com/comsol ). About My Teamwork My Teamwork is a premise-based, multimedia communication solution with full feature access from a single software-based server. Powered by SIP to the core architecture, My Teamwork supports the Alcatel OmniPCX Enterprise product line and other vendors' IP- and TDM-based telephony platforms. My Teamwork can be deployed on the customer premise for large and small businesses alike, as a managed service, or within the carrier infrastructure. As a pure software solution that runs on commodity hardware servers, My Teamwork guarantees enterprises investment protection by removing the initial and ongoing expenses associated with proprietary hardware-based products. With a software-based licensing model, upgrades and additional capacity are completed in minutes without the need for purchasing additional hardware. Furthermore due to its flexible scalability, My Teamwork meets the needs of small businesses, very large enterprises, and service providers. With thousands of enterprise users around the world at Fortune 100 and 500 companies, My Teamwork is sold both as a standalone product and as part of Alcatel's OmniTouch Unified Communications product suite. 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 12.5 billion in 2003, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. 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: media, 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 Michael Genaro of Technology Marketing Corporation, +1-203-852-6800, ext. 142, or Web site: http://www.alcatel.com/ http://www.tmcnet.com/ http://www.tmcnet.com/comsol

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