<Tr> <Th> Number of employees </Th> <Td> 30,500 (2006) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.lucent.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Lucent Technologies, Inc., was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the United States . It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies business unit of AT&T Corporation, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs . </P> <P> Lucent was merged with Alcatel SA of France in a merger of equals on December 1, 2006, forming Alcatel - Lucent . Alcatel - Lucent was absorbed by Nokia in January 2016 . </P>

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