LHS and Alcatel-Lucent Launch New Convergent Billing and Customer Care Solution for Prepaid and Postpaid Customers

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Frankfurt/Main, Germany and Paris, France (euro adhoc) - April 25th
2007 - LHS, a leading provider of telecom billing and customer care
systems and Alcatel-Lucent, today announced a fully integrated
prepaid and postpaid convergent billing system for present and
next-generation voice, data and multimedia services. Alcatel-Lucent
will offer the solution to all of its existing customers and new
customers to support their transformation to prepaid and postpaid
convergence. This solution becomes a major component of
Alcatel-Lucent's customer care and billing portfolio, and adds
particular value to customers in emerging markets.

This new joint solution strengthens an existing strategic
relationship between LHS and Alcatel-Lucent. In the past, the
companies worked on many postpaid customer care and billing solutions
together.

The solution combines components of LHS's iX Series Release 2 system
with Alcatel-Lucent's payment suite. It also integrates all
components needed for provisioning, customer care and refilling
prepaid telephone cards. The most recent example of a customer
benefiting from this successful cooperation is the Belarus mobile
services provider BeST, Minsk, for whom Alcatel-Lucent implemented
the BSCS iX billing and customer care system. "With this new joint
solution with LHS, network operators are offered a fully converged
all-in-one system, which combines rating, billing, customer care,
provisioning and Alcatel-Lucent's integration services for prepaid
and postpaid customers in real time," said Jean Pierre Gaillat,
Professional Services Managing Vice President, OSS/BSS and Software
Integration at Alcatel-Lucent. "Communication service providers will
benefit from LHS' best-of-breed product BSCS iX and Alcatel-Lucent's
carrier-grade payment suite, which will help them improve customer
retention overall."

"In addition, the solution is a reaction to the increased billing
demands of providers who want to harmonize all processes across
prepaid and postpaid segments", said Wolfgang Kroh, CEO of LHS. "This
not only significantly reduces the running costs of
telecommunications providers, but also allows them to launch
innovative services much faster than before with lower initial
capital expenditure."

LHS is the preferred supplier for a billing solution sold and
marketed by Alcatel-Lucent. By selecting components of the widely
tested and established billing software BSCS iX of LHS,
Alcatel-Lucent lowers the technology and investment risks for network
operators. In addition, the integration of the total solution keeps
implementation costs low, while customers benefit from the
flexibility of freely choosing prepaid and postpaid options.
Regardless of the payment option, they can always enjoy the full
range of their network provider's services.

The new software solution will be available in labs for customer
testing throughout Alcatel-Lucent and will be introduced for the
first time at TeleManagement World May 20 - 24 in Nice, France.

About Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)
provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and
governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication
services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged
broadband networking, IP technologies, applications, and services,
Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling
communications services for people at home, at work and on the move.
With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local
partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced
global services team in the industry, and one of the largest
research, technology and innovation organizations in the
telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved adjusted
proforma revenues of Euro 18.3 billion in 2006 and is incorporated in
France, with executive offices located in Paris. [All figures exclude
impact of activities transferred to Thales]. For more information,
visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com.

Press contact at Alcatel-Lucent

Mark Burnworth
Tel :+ 33 (0)1 40 76 50 84
mark.burnworth@alcatel-lucent.com

Stéphane Lapeyrade
Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 76 12 74
stephane.lapeyrade@alcatel-lucent.com

Alcatel-Lucent Investor Relations

Pascal Bantegnie
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 76 52 20
pascal.bantegnie@alcatel-lucent.com

Maria Alcon
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 76 15 17
maria.alcon@alcatel-lucent.com

John DeBono
Tel: + 1908-582-7793
debono@alcatel-lucent.com

About LHS LHS is a leading provider of telecom billing and customer
care systems across the wireless, wireline, and IP telecom markets
worldwide. LHS Business Support Systems offer full convergence on
various levels, supporting the complete range of business models both
across the mix of fixed and mobile services, as well as prepaid and
postpaid services. LHS builds innovative systems that enable our
customers to introduce new services fast, helping drive revenues up,
while keeping operational costs to a minimum. LHS was awarded "Best
Billing or Customer Care Solution" by the GSM Association in Cannes
in 2005, and won the IIR World Billing Awards for its "Overall Best
Contribution to Billing" in London in 2005 and 2006. LHS is an
independent software vendor (ISV) with headquarters in Germany, and
offices in Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Malaysia, Turkey, and
United Arab Emirates. LHS is part of the LHS Group, and LHS
Aktiengesellschaft as the Group's Holding company is a public company
listed on the Frankfurter Stock Exchange (LHS400). For more
information, please visit www.lhsgroup.com

end of announcement euro adhoc 25.04.2007 07:00:00
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