July 2004

Alcatel Corp. has reached an agreement to buy Swiss mobile application service provider MNC, the companies announced.

The acquisition will allow Alcatel to improve content delivery through multimedia messaging service, short message service, Java downloads and mobile video-based services, officials said, as well as opening Alcatel networks to hundreds of other content providers, enterprises and communities.

“By making the cooperation with mobile operators easier for hundreds of external content providers around the world, Alcatel is bringing to the mobile industry a solution that enables all key market players to combine efforts and offer end users a wealth of attractive new multimedia services, while sharing the associated revenues in a profitable manner,” said Marc Rouanne, chief operating officer of Alcatel’s mobile communications activities.

“We are very happy to have the MNC team join our group.”