CTIA Wireless, LAS VEGAS, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --     Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced its Rich
Communications Manager, which delivers the next generation of unified rich
messaging through a single web portal - providing enhanced messaging and
communications to fixed, mobile, and IP devices - has been selected as this
year's Most Innovative Mobile Application at the Andrew Seybold Choice
Awards.

With this new functionality, fixed and mobile end users can retrieve,
view, respond, and forward video, photos and text from a web portal that also
integrates address books between user devices. Leveraging familiar, intuitive
desktop concepts, subscribers can now easily drag and drop content across
voice mail, SMS, MMS, email, faxes, calendars, and address books. In addition
to eliminating the traditional barriers between various networks by making
all mobile and PC communications visible in one place, the Rich
Communications Manager eliminates multiple logins, user interfaces and
contexts defined by different messaging applications.

The Rich Communications Manager provides end users with the convenience
of accessing and managing their rich communications at home, work and on
mobile phones. It also allows them to visually see a converged message queue,
as well as originate and listen to voice mail messages online. It also
provides voice to text functionality to allow users to read a voicemail
transcription.

The Andrew Seybold Choice Awards have come to be recognized throughout
the industry for their ability to identify cutting-edge products and services
that offer innovation and impact to both wireless providers and end-users.
Criteria used in choosing 2009 award winners included solving a long-standing
problem, innovative approach, efficient use of resources, ease of use,
potential to attract more customers to wireless voice and data services, as
well as functionality, features and price.

"Each of this year's award winners have made significant progress in
simplifying the user experience, which is critical to expansion in the
wireless industry," said Andrew Seybold, President and CEO of Andrew Seybold,
Inc. "Alcatel-Lucent has gone a step further by also supporting unified
messaging access across all devices to conveniently follow the end user."

"We are excited to receive this recognition for the Rich Communications
Manager on the heels of its recent general availability announcement and
debut at CTIA Showstoppers," said Gani Nayak, President of Alcatel-Lucent's
Rich Communications business. "The award validates the tremendous potential
we believe this product has for service provider differentiation, subscriber
stickiness and quickly bringing unifying new services to market."

At CTIA, Alcatel-Lucent is also showcasing the next generation of this
technology - a Rich Communication Suite-based 'communications widget' that
can be leveraged in mash-ups with third party applications to provide
intuitive, trusted communications and messaging capability directly in the
third party portal. This future capability of the Rich Communication Manager
is consistent with Alcatel-Lucent's application enablement strategy and helps
the network provider generate value by exposing communication and messaging
capabilities to developers in a managed and controlled way.

About Andrew Seybold, Inc.

Andrew Seybold, Inc., founded by wireless and mobile communications
expert Andrew M. Seybold, operates internationally, offering unparalleled
analysis of technologies and trends impacting the convergence of wireless,
mobility and the Internet. Andrew Seybold, Inc. is known widely for its
strategic consulting services, Industry publications and industry-specific
educational seminar programs. Notable among its offerings are the Andrew
Seybold Commentary and Wireless Data University. Sign up for a free
subscription of Andrew Seybold Commentary and learn more about Andrew
SeyBold, Inc. at http://www.andrewseybold.com.

About the Alcatel-Lucent 5155 Rich Communications Manager

The Alcatel-Lucent 5155 Rich Communications Manager Release 2.1 is the
first generally available release to the marketplace. It delivers a superior
Web 2.0 experience with enhanced Web messaging, providing an online web
interface for subscribers to manage their communication needs. It enables end
users to retrieve, view, respond, forward voicemails, SMS, MMS, emails, and
fax from a web portal with built-in network address book to store all their
contacts. The network address book supported is in compliance with GSM
Association Rich Communication Suite (RCS) release 1.0. The product can also
support online message management capabilities for 3rd party voicemail
systems. Leveraging an open source environment, the Rich Communications
Manager supports service creation in the future by enabling service providers
to roll out new multi-screen communications services combining messaging with
Web communications (voice, presence, chat), social networking, content and
advertisement services.

For more information on this product, please go to
http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/products/productsummary.jsp?productNumber=tcm:228-1588581635

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted partner of
service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions
that to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. A
leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies,
applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivalled technical
and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation
powerhouses in the communications industry. With operations in more than 130
countries and the most experienced global services organization in the
industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with a global reach.
Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 16.98 billion in 2008 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