Press release

15 January 2014

Partnership

Altran and Alcatel-Lucent announce industrial partnership project in telecoms sector in Orvault (Western France)

Today, the groups Altran and Alcatel-Lucent announced that they have formed an industrial partnership project for the purposes of creating an expertise and telecoms services centre in the employment catchment area in Nantes. Within the context of this agreement, around 170 expert engineers specialised in 4G technology at Alcatel-Lucent's Orvault site (Western France) would be integrated into Altran's telecoms and media teams.

Altran has been a privileged partner of Alcatel-Lucent for more than 15 years providing the group with R&D consulting and services at the international level. This partnership will create a privileged working relationship between the two engineering teams and as such enable both companies to reinforce the fundamental basis of their collaboration.

Commenting on the partnership, Loïc le Grouiec, Country Operation Manager of Alcatel-Lucent in France said, "We are very pleased to enter into this partnership project with Altran, the global leader in consulting and innovation, particularly since this will give our highly-qualified employees the opportunity to pursue their careers in the employee catchment area in Nantes. We are sure that the management of Altran will enable our staff to further their professional development in accordance with their talent and expertise. Thanks to its wide international spread and presence in many sectors of activity, Altran will, among other things, give our teams access to new growth opportunities in the telecoms industry and, even more so, in the Intelligent Systems sector. »

Speaking on behalf of Altran, Cyril Roger, Executive Vice-President of the Group in charge of operations in France and Southern Europe, declared: « This partnership project with Alcatel-Lucent consolidates our development strategy to provide our customers with a range of unique skills, in complex areas and for the global market. The contribution of Alcatel-Lucent's experts from the


Orvault site completes our presence on the 4G market of the future and puts us ahead in terms of being able to provide our clients with an offering that is unmatched on the market. »

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