Alcatel Initially it was a small company based in Mulhouse and belonging to the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques which designed and manufactured telecommunications equipment, it was absorbed in 1968 by the Compagnie Industrielle des Télécommunications (CIT), belonging to the Compagnie générale d'électricité (CGE ); in 1970 CIT-Alcatel was created. Between 1970 and 1985, no company bore the unique name “Alcatel,” which was associated with CIT at the time. CIT-Alcatel becomes Alcatel-CIT and then in 1985 “Alcatel”. In 1991, for imag...Read more
Alcatel
Initially it was a small company based in Mulhouse and belonging to the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques which designed and manufactured telecommunications equipment, it was absorbed in 1968 by the Compagnie Industrielle des Télécommunications (CIT), belonging to the Compagnie générale d'électricité (CGE ); in 1970 CIT-Alcatel was created.
Between 1970 and 1985, no company bore the unique name “Alcatel,” which was associated with CIT at the time. CIT-Alcatel becomes Alcatel-CIT and then in 1985 “Alcatel”. In 1991, for image reasons, the CGE took the name “Alcatel-Alsthom” (1991-1998). In 1998, “Alcatel-Alsthom” (formerly CGE) and “Alcatel” (formerly Alcatel-CIT) merged into “Alcatel”.
Alcatel-CIT was a world leader in the supply of digital telephone exchanges (“E10” series), submarine transmission cables, mobile infrastructure (GSM, GPRS, UMTS), smart grid applications, telephone exchange applications, of video applications (fixed and mobile) and also of satellites and on-board loads. It was also the market leader in optical networks, DSL network devices and ATM and IP routers.
Alcatel therefore provided services to all its customers from network design to network exploitation, through device manufacturing, integration and installation.
In 2005, Alcatel was present in more than 130 countries, with revenues of 13.1 billion euros.
The merger between Alcatel and Lucent Technologies was finalized on November 30, 2006; Alcatel-Lucent has been operational since 1 December.
The registered trademark “Alcatel”, owned by Alcatel, has been licensed to TCL Corporation since 2004 to produce mobile phones and smartphones; ownership of the brand then passed to Alcatel-Lucent and finally to Nokia.