Alcatel-Lucent ADS fka ALU

[DocLevi]

Recent quarter news makes the cube the technology in all these deals, like VoLTE 8/14...

ALU is big, like IBM in the 80's somewhat where there's an ALU office in most big cities. Amarillo, picked up phone book in Spring and ... and then at hotel I was staying at, one with Euro looking truck/van thingy was checking out while I was going in and pointed out amazement of local office and he said yeah lots of people don't realize how big they are.

PARIS, Aug. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the results of an independent research study which found that its commercially deployed Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) technology provides better service than 3G Circuit Switched (CS) voice and Internet calling services and Skype software.

The analysis found that VoLTE users enjoyed considerably better call quality, faster connectivity and substantially less drain on the batteries of their mobile devices.

Without VoLTE, smartphones must make do with slower 3G networks to connect voice calls. VoLTE, on the other hand, enables 4G LTE operators to simultaneously deliver both faster mobile broadband and IP-based communications, including HD voice, HD video, presence and messaging across any connected network, device and application....