Beijing - Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced that Wuxi Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, has deployed the Lucent's MiLife? SurePay® Solutions suite, a Bell Labs-developed prepaid system, to support its Personal HandyPhone System (PHS) business. This marks the first commercial deployment of Lucent's SurePay® suite with a PHS operator in China.

The SurePay suite is a highly scalable, converged pre-paid/post-paid billing solution that provides support for a wide variety of voice, data, content charging and e-commerce services. For instance, with SurePay, Wuxi Telecom will be able to charge for voice calls, short message services and other data content such as downloads of ring tones and wireless Internet access. Lucent has optimized the solution to better meet the unique demands of Wuxi Telecom's PHS business.

"This deployment further extends our cooperation with Chinese operators in the PHS market," said Louis Tong, executive vice president, Lucent Technologies China. "Lucent is a leading developer of prepaid solutions, and we're pleased to work with Wuxi Telecom to further enhance their PHS service offerings using SurePay. By deploying SurePay, Wuxi Telecom is able to meet the needs of its subscribers today while enjoying the flexibility to evolve its prepaid offerings in the future to serve additional customers or offer new features."

The SurePay suite offers the flexibility to support a broad range of payment plans, giving Wuxi Telecom the freedom to develop service packages and promotions targeted to particular customer segments, helping maximize its return on investment. The SurePay suite has been commercially deployed in more than 20 networks worldwide, serving more than 50 million end-users.

As one of the world's leading infrastructure providers, Lucent offers best-in-class reliability and scalability in its PHS end-to-end network solutions. Lucent's PHS system enables a full array of innovative services including short message service (SMS), Hi-Mode, high-speed wireless data, prepaid services, location-based services and Centrex services.

Lucent offers a complete portfolio of PHS solutions that covers networking equipment, terminals and value-added system. Backed by Bell Labs innovation and the strong local support capability, Lucent's PHS solutions and terminals have been widely deployed, serving over 6 million subscribers in more than ten provinces, including Fujian, Gansu, Jiangsu, Hubei, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Shandong, and Liaoning.

About Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Lucent's customer base includes communications service providers, governments and enterprises worldwide. For more information on Lucent Technologies, which has headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit www.lucent.com.

Lucent China has eight regional offices, two Bell Labs branches, five R&D facilities and a number of joint ventures and wholly owned enterprises. Currently, the company has approximately 4,000 employees in China and manufactures a full array of telecommunications network equipment and solutions that serves the Chinese and international markets. For more information on Lucent China, visit its web site at www.lucent.com.cn.

Karen Chen
Lucent Technologies in China
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Kurt Steinert
Lucent Technologies - Applications Solutions
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