Alcatel adds SALEC to its Business Partner Program to bring enterprise solutions to customers in Egypt

Paris, July 27, 2006 - Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) announced today that the Saudi Logistics and Electronics Company (SALEC), a leading IT integrator in the Middle East, will join its Business Partner Program and sell Alcatel enterprise solutions to businesses throughout Egypt.

"SALEC is pleased to have joined the Alcatel Business Partner Program, we are confident that Alcatel’s range of user centric solutions will offer our customers a comprehensive feature set and an open architecture for growth and expansion. Our first customer to benefit from this partnership is "The Contact Center Egypt", one of the five larger players in the contact center business in Egypt, providing business process outsourcing, tele-marketing, tele-sales and tele-support" said Mahmoud Soliman, President and CEO of SALEC.

"Partnering with IT leaders like SALEC means Alcatel is better able to deliver the efficiency boosting benefits of its enterprise solutions to businesses throughout Egypt since SALEC has a strong knowledge of IP, consultancy, project management and, after sales support that will help them deliver complete solutions to their customers in this important market" said Hesham El Nahhas, regional sales director for Alcatel enterprise activities in Middle East.

Alcatel offers a cutting edge set of solutions for the enterprise segment in the region comprised of Voice over IP, IP infrastructure, secure converged solutions and CTI applications. These solutions will assist SALEC’s customers looking for integrated IP Infrastructures with advanced voice services and applications that will streamline operation, enhance employee’s productivity, maintain an unprecedented high level of availability and resilience through an Alcatel unified communication architecture in which the user is the focal point.

About Salec
Saudi Logistics and Electronics Company (Salec ), headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, is an International Systems Integrator, that designs, builds, and delivers innovative state-of-the-art Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions worldwide, for both the service providers, and the public and private enterprise, with focus on high-end networking. Being business partner with the best of breed in ICT, and with 5 offices in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and UAE; Salec holds a very reputable customer base regionally. Salec is a Member of the Dabbagh Group. Additional information about Salec is available on the company’s Web site at http://www.salec.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

About the Alcatel Business Partner Program
The Alcatel Business Partner Program is a strategic investment by Alcatel to support its channel activities in the enterprise market. It comprises training programs , technical certification, support activities which includes a hot-line, regular product updates, hardware and software support and an interactive web site. The goal of Business Partner Program is to empower Alcatel Partners to help end-customers successfully maximize their investment through optimum deployment of Alcatel’ s solutions, as well as rapid, competent service response. Teaming with an accredited Alcatel Business Partner, end-customers can be confident that they will receive the best top quality design, delivery, and support of the very best data, voice and integrated convergence solutions available today. (http://www.alcatel.com/partners )

About Alcatel Enterprise solutions
With more than 500,000 customers, Alcatel is a leading provider of communication solutions to small, medium, and large enterprises, as well as to public sector institutions worldwide. Alcatel’s enterprise portfolio provides business communication applications, including Unified Communications and Contact Centers, an advanced IP Telephony offering, and IP Networking products. Alcatel’s enterprise solutions deliver an enhanced competitive edge to businesses of all sizes by increasing customer satisfaction, employee productivity, and operational efficiencies.

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