Serge Tchuruk Quotations

Five years ago, we went a very long way to get this done and discussion broke in the last minutes.

We do acquire when we need to complement whatever we've got ... but we aren't one of these companies that is, to a large extent, acquiring technology from outside parties, ... If there are opportunities, we may pursue them, but it's not a priority goal within Alcatel these days.

As far as operating income goes, we hope to report a positive result this year, but the market is not helping us. It's a challenge,

The fit between the people was perhaps not as good as one would have hoped.

We are very competitive, actually; we did much better than others,

Alcatel is making a major move to become a worldwide leader in new-generation networks, which will handle the explosive growth of data with the appropriate quality of service,

Expanding operating profitability in the future will continue to remain a priority focus,

We anticipate that the carrier market will continue to grow in the mid single digit range for the full year 2006.

In uncertain markets, Alcatel's success will hinge on operating flexibility... considerable streamlining is underway at Alcatel to improve flexibility and realign its internal cost structure to the current business slowdown,

We were particularly pleased to see our fixed communication revenues start increasing again, as anticipated, reversing a four-year decline,