Serge Tchuruk Year Quotations

We anticipate that the carrier market will continue to grow in the mid single digit range for the full year 2006.

We expect that our top-line growth will be around 30 percent for the telecom segments, as opposed to mid-teens as was conveyed at the beginning of the year, ... We also believe that for the year 2000, we should meet our recurring target to grow Alcatel's operating income twice as fast as sales.