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Lucent CEO Patricia Russo shakes hand with her Alcatel counterpart Serge Tchuruk, 03 April 2006 in Paris. Shares in French telecom technology group Alcatel jumped 5.64 percent today after a weekend announcement that it would acquire Lucent to form a global giant worth about 33.0 billion...

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Patricia Russo, chief executive of French-US telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent, delivers a speech 14 March 2007 at the Congress center in Hanover, central Germany, during the official opening of the CeBIT, the world's biggest high-tech fair, also attended by German...

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French-US telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent's Chief executive officer, Patricia Russo gives a speech during a meeting, 01 June 2007 in Paris. Over 150 Employees demonstrated at the beginning of the meeting to denounce outsourcing and the closing of differents sites in...

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French-US telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent's Chief executive officer, Patricia Russo, listens to a speech during a meeting, 01 June 2007 in Paris. Over 150 Employees demonstrated at the beginning of the meeting to denounce outsourcing and the closing of differents sites...

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French-US telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent's President of governing board, Serge Tchuruk (2ndL), gives a speech during a meeting, 01 June 2007 in Paris, next to Chief executive officer, Patricia Russo (2ndR), and Financial Director Jean-Pascal Beaufret (R). Over 150...

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Chief executive officer of Alcatel-Lucent Patricia Russo speaks during a press conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 12, 2008.

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Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Alcatel Lucent Patricia Russo attends a press conference,15 February 2007 on the last day of the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. Making affordable phones and targeting consumers with smaller budgets have now become priorities for the largest companies...

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Lucent Technologies chairman and CEO Patricia Russo talks 07 October 2006 during a plenary session of the 2nd edition of the Women's Forum for the Economy and Society in Deauville, France. The three-day forum, entitled 'Women's new responsibility for improving our societies', brings...

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A combo of file pictures shows Dutch former head of British Telecom Group BT Ben Verwaayen (L) and French former top executive of European Aeronautic Defence and Space company EADS Philippe Camus. Verwaayen and Camus have been named chief executives of the Franco-American telecom...