Ben Verwaayen, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, has announced that his company, that has been making a loss for seven quarters, is firing a thousand leaders and five thousand contracted employees in order to cut back on expenses, thus the company might become profitable in 2009. It has also turned out from the announcement that Alcatel-Lucent wants to focus on mobile data transfer technologies again, thus they are investing larger sums in CDMA, EV-DO, WCDMA and LTE developments, while the fate of WiMAC and mobile television seems doubtful for the time being. The company primarily wants to offers solutions to its enterprise partners, which would allow subscribers to comfortable access the world wide web with practically any kind of phone. The four main pillars of the new strategy are IP, optical data transfer, mobile and wired broadband and application support. Additional information is available on the company website at this link.
Translated by Szaszati
