{"id":4745,"date":"2006-09-05T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T10:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/alcatel-and-lucent-no-deal.html"},"modified":"2006-09-05T10:19:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T10:19:11","slug":"alcatel-and-lucent-no-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/alcatel-and-lucent-no-deal.html","title":{"rendered":"Alcatel and Lucent No Deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">A flurry of articles are now out there in cyberspace hinting that Alcatel and Lucent may not merge after all. The telecom market seems to have already responded to this deal and competitors have been repositioning themselves to compete with a &nbsp;single telecom service provider giant. If the deal doesn&rsquo;t go through it may now put Lucent and Alcatel at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\" size=\"2\"><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/font> <a class=\"topics\" title=\" Alcatel-Lucent: One Step Closer\" href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/-alcatel-lucent-merger-lawsuits-\/2006\/09\/05\/1858611.htm\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Alcatel-Lucent: One Step Closer<\/font><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/markets\/2006\/09\/05\/lucent-alcatel-0905markets01.html\"><span><font size=\"2\"><font color=\"#0000cc\">Alcatel Lands Nortel Deal; Lucent Merger Appears Shaky<\/font><br \/><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnnet.com.au\/index.php\/id;601717347;fp;8;fpid;0\"><font color=\"#0000cc\" size=\"2\">Alcatel to buy Nortel&#8217;s UMTS business<\/font><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbronline.com\/article_news.asp?guid=8EB166D5-CD9B-4EF8-BF97-449F1BFB7193\"><font color=\"#0000cc\" size=\"2\">Nortel sells UMTS business to Alcatel for $320m<\/font><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com.au\/news\/communications\/soa\/Alcatel_to_buy_part_of_Nortel_wireless_unit\/0,130061791,339270758,00.htm\"><font color=\"#0000cc\" size=\"2\">Alcatel to buy part of Nortel wireless unit<\/font><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.easybourse.com\/Website\/dynamic\/FicheValeur.php?ISIN=FR0000130007&amp;lang=fra&amp;NewsID=49952\"><font color=\"#0000cc\" size=\"2\">US EQUITIES WEEK AHEAD: Lucent-Alcatel Combo Goes To Vote<\/font><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/ap\/fn\/4148973.html\"><font color=\"#0000cc\" size=\"2\">French Firm against Lucent-Alcatel Deal<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flurry of articles are now out there in cyberspace hinting that Alcatel and Lucent may not merge after all. The telecom market seems to have already responded to this deal and competitors have been repositioning themselves to compete with a &nbsp;single telecom service provider giant. If the deal doesn&rsquo;t go through it may now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,163,212,218,197,198,189,118,190,191,219,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}