Lucent and Alcatel merge to form... wait for it... Alcatel Lucent

In a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Lucent Technologies has disclosed the new name of their mega telco-tech merger with Alcatel they announced in April. The newly formed $25 billion company will be formally known as Alcatel Lucent, ending intense rounds of speculation by nobody at all. Everything should be sealed up by the end of year, and Lucent investors will own around 40 percent of combined company, with Alcatel types holding the rest.

[Via The Wireless Report]

[Jeff @ Aug 11th 2006 12:36PM]

I was hoping for:

Alcacent
Lucatel

or

Alcatelcent

or maybe

Lucecalcatelcent

[Joe Alien @ Aug 11th 2006 12:54PM]

My vote would be "Lu and Al's Big Technology Company" ...

[henryaj @ Aug 11th 2006 1:21PM]

Did anyone have one of those Alcatel 'Stingray' fat-ass green DSL modems? HOLY GOD they were bad.

[chuck norris @ Aug 11th 2006 1:41PM]

i hope their spokesman is captain lou albano.

[thud @ Aug 11th 2006 2:09PM]

When the deal was first floated, somebody on Slashdot said they should call the new company "Accident."

[ArSF @ Aug 11th 2006 2:18PM]

Since ALCATEL is loosing in telecom bussiness they should name company as LUS-A-TEL

[tiuk @ Aug 11th 2006 2:28PM]

Revrant - Just because you've never heard of a company doesn't mean they aren't a big player in an industry.

[Stockholder @ Aug 11th 2006 2:39PM]

I hope the other Lucent stockholders vote against the deal, too.

[AltatecGt @ Aug 11th 2006 3:32PM]

The union that announced it in April now Gentle Telco-Tech for 25 $ Trillions now will be known as Alcatel Lucent being Alcatel the holder of the majority of actions with 60 % and Lucent with 40 % will be sealed at the end of this year.

[Junyo @ Aug 11th 2006 3:41PM]

New company's slogan:
"Alcatel Lucent - Like Canada, we suck in French and English."

[Ben @ Aug 11th 2006 4:40PM]

Too bad my Lucent stock is plummeting constantly.

[Amy Hikari @ Aug 11th 2006 11:37PM]

My dad used to work for Lucent. I wonder what he'd think of this.

[Nizam Rahman @ Aug 12th 2006 2:36AM]

You might not have heard of it, but Alcatel lays most of the undersea fibre optics cabling all over the globe.

[Ricardo Chavarria @ Aug 12th 2006 6:28PM]

My dad used to work for Alcatel. Thank god he isn't working there anymore.
Most of the world's best GSM equipment, Telco equipment and fiber optics are Alcatel, in case you didn't know.

[macklime @ Aug 13th 2006 10:19PM]

This article is a load of horseshit. Either that or the writers here are 10 year olds.

"The newly formed $25 billion company will be formally known as Alcatel Lucent, ending intense rounds of speculation by nobody at all."

will be formmally known as...well that makes no sense
ending intense rounds....by nobody at all....well that makes even less sense.

[Jay Hash @ Aug 15th 2006 2:41AM]

I HATE Alcatel. I have to say they've nearly ruined my family's life. My Dad used to work for an american company called DSC Communications Corporation, which was bought out by those european bastards, who then proceeded to cap my dad's salary and then fire all the people who worked under my dad. Then some jackhole who wanted to "get rid" of all the old DSC Employees comes onto the scene, and my dad has to hightail it or get his walking papers. He gave 18 years to DSC, and within a year and a half, Alcatel screws him and his family royally. I hope their stock crashes and then their CEO is indicted for insider trading and civilly jailed for the rest of his natural life. The jerks...

[Joe Buck @ Aug 19th 2006 3:07PM]

I just want to see that STUPID lucent go away. It looks like a flaming asshole

[merrill lynched me @ Feb 27th 2007 8:18PM]

Where's the gain for us guys who bought LU 5 years ago at 12..mid tech dump... and new shares are at 13.15 currently and when the merger ocurred I went from 800 shares to 156 to be valued the same.

Who do I care who the hell they merge with??
SAME VALUE LESS OF IT...LESS PERCENTAGE GAIN PER VOLUME SHARE...THNX MR LYNCH