Despite the merger between Alcatel and Lucent, one of the largest in the
telecom infrastructure segment, business at Alcatel-Lucent was unruffled in FY
'06-07.
According to V&D estimates, Alcatel-Lucent's revenue stands at Rs 3,500 crore
for FY '06-07. The significant revenue rise can be attributed to several factors
such as main orders, smooth integration of the two entities, retaining main
clients, retaining crème of the employees and introduction of a new brand that
signified the two organizations flowing into each other.
During fiscal 2006-07, when final integration completed and a brand new look
unveiled, the telecom infrastructure giant bagged some of the major coveted
orders in the Indian telecom industry. The main deals grabbed recently by
Alcatel-Lucent include BSNL's GSM expansion of 3 mn lines, MTNL's 2G and 3G
expansion of 2 mn lines, Reliance Communications' CDMA maintenance, Tata
Teleservices' hosted IP contact center solution, Bharti's transmission
expansions, ICICI Bank's largest single site outsourced contact center, Reserve
Bank of India's 1,000 users enterprise solution, etc. In the transmission
segment, most of the deployments by Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices were by
Alcatel-Lucent.
South Asia is the fifth largest regional unit in Alcatel-Lucent and this is
significant as Asia contributed 15% of Alcatel-Lucent's global revenue in 2006.
Globally, services contributed 16%, enterprises 9%, convergence 12%, wireless
32%, and wireline 31%.
Alcatel-Lucent's global market rankings: #1 in wireline, #3 in wireless, and
#2 in services, are recognized in India too. Thanks to all major orders, Alcatel
is the undisputed leader in many segments in India. Some of the major orders
with mobile operators are in the pipeline that could foster its future as well.
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Apart from main orders, the smooth integration of operations of Alcatel and
Lucent was one of its main achievements. The integration, which did not see a
blood bath, was successful as there was hardly any overlap between the
operations and services provided by both companies in India. Following the
merger, Alcatel-Lucent will continue to grow along with the market and as per
the needs of its customers.
For the enterprise segment it was a turnaround year, where the company
acquired many new customers to achieve over 100% growth. The field trials of
WiMax 802.16e Rev-e done with the major operators, both public and private, are
examples of its leadership position.
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As Alcatel-Lucent has leadership position globally as well as in South Asia
in most of the businesses that they are in, namely wireline (includes broadband,
IP and optics) wireless (GSM, CDMA, WiMax and microwave transmission)
convergence (IMS, IP-TV, IP/NGN, applications, etc), enterprise and vertical
business and finally the service business, the company has very clear focus in
all these growth areas with dedicated teams both globally as well as locally.
With focus on R&D efforts in India, the company is ideally poised to meet the
demands of the market and provide innovative solutions to users. The future for
Alcatel-Lucent is bright.