According to the company’s statement, today’s announcement is part of Alcatel-Lucent’s “Shift Plan”:
The plan aims to ensure a sustainable financial future and a successful transformation of the company by repositioning it as a specialist in the next-generation technologies of IP Networking, Cloud and Ultra-Broadband Access in order to better serve its customers.
The plan includes an increase in R&D spending on next-generation products, a cut in spending on R&D in legacy products and cuts to SG&A costs. The job cuts include 4,100 in Alcatel-Lucent’s Europe, Middle East and Africa region; 3,800 in the Asia Pacific region; and 2,100 in the Americas.
Alcatel-Lucent recently won a 10% share of the first contracts awarded by China Mobile Ltd. (NYSE: CHL) for the build out of its 4G network. Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and Nokia Corp.’s (NYSE: NOK) Nokia Solutions and Network group each won a similar amount, and two Chinese firms, Huawei Technologies and ZTE, each nabbed 25% of the work. There have even been rumors of a tie-up between Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent once the sale of Nokia’s mobile phone business to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is completed.
Shares of Alcatel-Lucent are up more than 3% in premarket trading Tuesday morning, at $3.97 in a 52-week range of $0.91 to $4.02.
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