Merger creates a telecoms 'superpower'

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The massive company that has emerged from the recent Alcatel and Lucent Technologies alliance has the potential to dominate the telecommunications market. Trevor Treharne looks at what effects it could have on both companies' channels

The recent merger of telephony vendors Alcatel and Lucent Technologies will form one of the biggest telecoms vendors in the world. If the firms had merged in 2005, their combined turnover would hav...

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