AMSTERDAM - Metering, Billing/CRM Europe 2008, September 23 /PRNewswire/ --     Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and Deutsche Telekom today 
announced that they launch a web-based Smart Metering user interface for the
E-Metering field trial, which is running in the German city of 
Friedrichshafen.

In Friedrichshafen, local utility provider "Technische Werke
Friedrichshafen" is piloting an innovative Smart Metering product, named
"TWF:CleverZÀhler" ("clever meter"), based on an end-to-end metering service
jointly developed by Alcatel-Lucent and Deutsche Telekom's business customer
segment, T-Systems. The service gives consumers and utilities a
near-real-time view of energy consumption for each connected household. About
1,000 smart meters for electricity as well as gas are planned to be supplied
to 700 households until mid 2009.

Smart Metering helps consumers to use electricity more efficiently and
reduce energy costs and carbon emissions into the environment. Local
utilities profit from the service with an exact overview of the actual energy
consumption in all parts of their network. This enables better forecasting
and offers a lever to give incentives to consumers to control demand to a
certain extent.

Consumers get a view of their energy consumption over a web user
interface - as launched today in Friedrichshafen -, which they access
over a DSL connection. They can initiate ad-hoc measurements of their energy
consumption anytime. Otherwise, the web user interface visualises the energy
consumption curve along defined timelines, for example - per hour, per day or
per month.

Utility providers also have a remote view of the smart meters. Since the
metering service updates data on energy consumption every 15 minutes,
utilities can react very quickly and for example, propose incentives to
consumers to consume energy at a certain time. This helps them to reduce
their peak loads and better utilise their network assets, which potentially
reduces network investments.

"By partnering with Deutsche Telekom, we have developed a Smart Metering
solution that is likely to further develop this market segment.
Alcatel-Lucent is providing network integration and other professional
services for this end-to-end solution that is providing communications
between consumers and their utility providers," says Michael Fabian,
President of Alcatel-Lucent's Industry and Public Sector business. "We have
experience in managing complex projects and deploying multivendor solutions.
This experience from consumers and the utility provider in this trial will
advance our network design and application integration knowledge and enhance
our solution."

The T-City partners, Deutsche Telekom and Alcatel-Lucent, provide an
end-to-end metering service -- based on the IP-based Open Service Platform of
Alcatel-Lucent. Besides providing and operating the metering platform in a
managed service centre, Alcatel-Lucent designed the web user interfaces.

Deutsche Telekom not only rolled out the broadband network infrastructure
that makes Friedrichshafen and its citizens future-ready. Within the
E-Metering trial, Deutsche Telekom provides field service for the
installation, is operating the smart meters' communications network, and is
handling the data processing, provisioning and visualisation. The metering
platform relies on a robust distributed network of meter boxes,
interconnecting the various meters to the central data management. This
happens via a secure network, which is independent from the consumer's
regular Internet access.

The local utility provider is responsible for the installation of the
meters and takes care of customer relationship activities, including selling
and marketing the smart metering service, and providing end-user service.
Software integrator Bittner & Krull, an expert in software solutions for
utilities, provides the business logic for the meter data from
Friedrichshafen and processes these towards the utility's Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) system.

The end-to-end smart metering service of Deutsche Telekom and
Alcatel-Lucent is based on Alcatel-Lucent's Open Service Platform (OSP),
which is widely used in mobile networks to process data in real-time. The OSP
has been adapted to the energy market, now offering meter reading, meter
management, infrastructure and data management. It is highly scalable up to
30 million subscribers; supports open standards and several ERP systems. In
this way, it supports further liberalisation of the energy market. It also
gives utility providers the option to introduce pre-paid services in the
energy market, which could reduce debt collection issues.

Alcatel-Lucent is a trusted services partner to leading energy
providers round the world. Through its active participation in the European
Utilities Telecom Council (EUTC) and the European Information &
Communications Technology Industry Association (EICTA), Alcatel-Lucent
develops its thought-leadership to ensure the pervasiveness of ICT to face
societal challenges. The solution provided by Alcatel-Lucent clearly meets
and promotes the EU top challenge of addressing energy efficiency though ICT.

T-City project

Friedrichshafen became Germany's first T-City as the result of
a competition, which Deutsche Telekom launched at CeBIT 2006. The objective
of the T-City project is to increase the quality of life for the T-City
citizens through implementation of IT and telecommunications projects that
involve innovative technology and new applications related to all areas of
city life. As exclusive premium partner, Alcatel-Lucent provides products and
innovative technologies and supports the implementation of project ideas.
Furthermore, Alcatel-Lucent will provide its know-how on service development
and introduction.

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides
solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments
worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to
end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking,
IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the
end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for
people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130
countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company
has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the
largest research, technology and innovation organisations in the
telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 17.8
billion in 2007 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located
in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet:
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com