Alcatel-Lucent acquired Nortel's 3G business

The newly merged Alcatel-Lucent SA Group has announced the completion of the acquisition of Nortel Networks Group's UMTS (3G) business for $ 320 million.

The plan to buy Nortel's 3G network was announced by Alcatel-Lucent in September 2006, and by December 31, 2006, the new transfer procedures were completed.

The agreement will help Alcatel-Lucent become one of the world's four largest UMTS network providers. There will be about 1,700 former employees of Nortel's UMTS division to work at Alcatel-Lucent, mostly a team of research and development experts.

About Nortel, the company once hoped to dominate the 3G market but was unsuccessful. After selling UMTS parts to Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel will focus on new areas: 4G mobile technologies.

4G mobile technologies that Nortel aims to include: WiMax, EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) Revision C, and LTE (Long-Term Evolution). Nortel. The company will also continue to support customers using CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) technologies in front of the wire.