Alcatel-Lucent and SpeedCast Limited Team Up to Launch the First Hosted DVB-H Mobile TV Service in Asia

Alcatel-Lucent and SpeedCast Limited Team Up to Launch the First Hosted DVB-H Mobile TV Service in Asia

SINGAPORE, June 20/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at the CommunicAsia 2008 and BroadcastAsia 2008 trade
shows, Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and SpeedCast Limited
announced plans to jointly market, deploy and operate a shared, hosted DVB-H
platform for mobile TV operators in Asia. The objective of the collaboration
is to enable the seamless delivery of digital video content to operators for
transmission to devices supporting the DVB-H mobile TV standard.

Alcatel-Lucent and SpeedCast will leverage their respective
technologies, infrastructure and content delivery solutions to provide
operators around the region with a state-of-the art DVB-H head-end. This
hosted service, jointly operated by Alcatel-Lucent and SpeedCast, will enable
mobile TV service providers to deliver more than 20 TV channels via satellite
(in the Ku-band or in the C-band) to their transmission towers for
terrestrial broadcast (in the UHF band) to DVB-H handheld devices.

This unique turnkey solution combines all the elements
required for a successful mobile TV service including the service platform, a
security and encryption technology, the platform for encoding into a DVB-H
compatible format, the satellite delivery to terrestrial infrastructure and a
very large number of TV channels with world-class content - across the major
genres spanning news, music, sports, lifestyle and entertainment - which can
be customized for different ethnic audiences.

This hosted managed service allows operators to drastically
reduce the capital and operational expenditures associated with mobile TV
service, and to leverage the economies of scale offered by a centralized
platform. It also ensures a much faster time-to-market.

"This hosted mobile TV broadcast offering will help lower the risk to
service providers associated with introducing a new service, while at the
same time giving them the opportunity to provide their customers with
attractively priced services and richer content offerings," said Pierre-Jean
Beylier, Chief Executive Officer of SpeedCast Limited.

"For cost-conscious mobile TV service operators, the key
advantage of adopting a hosted approach is to avoid having to invest in
head-end infrastructure, and therefore be able to concentrate their
infrastructure investment on gradually increasing the density of their DVB-H
or DVB-SH terrestrial transmission networks," said Frederic Rose,
Alcatel-Lucent's President of activities in the Europe, Africa and Asia
region. "By teaming-up with SpeedCast, Alcatel-Lucent is committed to
allowing traditional as well as green-field operators accelerate their mobile
TV delivery anywhere in Asia."

Visit SpeedCast at CommunicAsia 2008 (June 17 to 20, 2008 at
Singapore Expo - Hall 6, booth 6K2-01).

About SpeedCast

SpeedCast is a leading satellite service provider operating in
over 35 countries in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. SpeedCast's
powerful satellite IP-based platform delivers: - SpeedCast Broadband: High
speed Internet connectivity for enterprises and service providers; -
SpeedCast Private Network: Satellite network infrastructure and managed
solutions; - SpeedCast Multimedia: Premium bouquet of over 30 world-class
channels for broadband and mobile operators; - SpeedCast Broadcast: Global
content delivery solutions to ensure high-quality distribution of enterprise
and media content. Operating on many different satellites in both C-band and
Ku-band, and partnering with Tier 1 carriers for fiber requirements,
SpeedCast and its 80 partners worldwide provide first-class services and 24/7
technical support. For more information please visit our website
http://www.speedcast.com

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides
solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments
worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to
end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking,
IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the
end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for
people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130
countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company
has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the
largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the
telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 17.8
billion in 2007 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located
in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet:
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

Source: Alcatel-Lucent

SpeedCast Press Contact: Caroline Paul, Tel: +852-2805-6555, caroline@speedcast.com. Alcatel-Lucent Press Contacts: Regine Coqueran, Tel: +33-(0)1-40-76-49-24, regine.coqueran@alcatel-lucent.com. Stephane Lapeyrade, Tel: +33-(0)1-40-76-12-74, stephane.lapeyrade@alcatel-lucent.com. Alcatel-Lucent Investor Relations: Remi Thomas, Tel: +33-(0)1-40-76-50-61, remi.thomas@alcatel-lucent.com, John DeBono, Tel: +1-908-582-7793, debono@alcatel-lucent.com, Tony Lucido, Tel: +33-(0)1-40-76-49-80, alucido@alcatel-lucent.com, Don Sweeney, Tel: +1-908-582-6153, dsweeney@alcatel-lucent.com

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