NEW YORK --With battered U.S. telecom companies spending little on hardware upgrades, equipment maker Lucent Technologies posted a quarterly loss of $7.9 billion on Tuesday and said it would cut 7,000 ...

For Lucent Technologies Chairman and CEO Patricia Russo, the merger with French-owned Alcatel brings to fruition her grand vision to create the world s leading telecom hardware supplier a deal that ...

In unveiling plans to merge with France s Alcatel last week, Lucent Technologies all but completed its short and largely unhappy life as an independent company. Spun out from AT&T in 1996, the ...

Henry Schacht, Lucent Technologies Inc.'s former chief executive and still a director, met with retirees in 10 states last fall to explain why Lucent was cutting their medical and life-insurance ...

Lucent Technologies and Alcatel executives called off a potential merger of the two telecommunications equipment giants Tuesday, raising new questions about the future of one of America's premier ...

France's Alcatel SA, pursuing a trans-Atlantic transaction that would unite two of the world's biggest communications-equipment suppliers, is near a deal to acquire Lucent Technologies Inc. for about ...