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Alcatel and Hanploi.com team up to facilitate job search for disabled people


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Paris, November 14, 2006 - Alcatel (Paris : CGEP.PA and NYSE : ALA) and Hanploi.com today launched a new SMS alert service. Job candidates subscribing to www.hanploi.com, a recruitment web site dedicated to disabled people, can now be alerted by SMS as soon as a new job alert corresponding to their profile or search criteria is placed on line.

This SMS alert solution will help disabled people to access job offers when they don’t have regular Internet access. It is also a useful tool for the deaf and hard of hearing who also utilize SMS services. This innovative service, which will be available for free on Hanploi.com, has been developed by Alcatel’s “Mission Handicap”.

“This simple and efficient tool will democratize e-recruitment, as it gives real time access to disabled people, who are communicating more with their mobile phones than with emails. Very few web sites are offering this alert system. It demonstrates that handicap initiatives benefit to innovation,” declared Karin Raguin, operational director of Hanploi.com.

“Alcatel’s goal is to facilitate access for disabled people to information and communication technologies”, said Pierre Beretti, Vice President, Industrial Relations for Alcatel. “We proposed this service development to Hanploi.com leveraging our expertise, and we financed the necessary IT developments.”

Alcatel is also “ Ile-de-France ” partner for the Week of employment for disabled people, which runs between November 13 and 19, 2006.

About Hanploi.com
www.hanploi.com was founded in November 2005 thanks to 10 corporate partner companies. Hanploi offers tools and HR solutions to companies in order to help them recruit disabled people. The CED association is managing “Hanploi” services. It was created in 2004 by two associations supporting disabled people to integrate into the work force : OHE 75 association covering Paris and the Seine St Denis (93) suburb, and another association called REUSSIR in the Hauts de Seine (92) department. For more information, please visit www.hanploi.com.

About Alcatel
Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers or employees. Alcatel brings its leading position in fixed and mobile broadband networks, applications and services, to help its partners and customers build a user-centric broadband world. With sales of EURO 13.1 billion and 58,000 employees in 2005, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel on the Internet: http://www.alcatel.com

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