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China state visit to France: Alcatel in billion-euro deal

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Paris (AFP) Nov 4, 2010
Franco-American telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent scooped the first deal of what was expected to be a lucrative Chinese state visit to France on Thursday, announcing a 1.178 billion euros in contracts.

Chinese President Hu Jintao was due to arrive in France later in the day at the start of a visit that French officials hope will lead to tens of billions of euros in contracts for France's high-technology sector.

In the first breakthrough of the day, Alcatel said it was to sign supply deals with three Chinese operators -- China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom -- worth a total of 1.178 billion euros (1.7 billion dollars).

An aide to President Nicolas Sarkozy's has said the deals, to be done during Hu's three-day visit, will be "will be far greater than during any previous visit by European leaders to Beijing or by Chinese leaders abroad."

He did not put a figure on this, but deals are in the offing in the nuclear, aviation and energy sectors. During Sarkozy's first state visit to China in November 2007, French companies signed contracts worth 20 billion euros.

"China is a booming market and we value our role in helping bring the power of IP and broadband to the hands of its people wherever they are," said Ben Verwaayen, chief executive officer of Alcatel-Lucent.

Alcatel-Lucent has been in the Chinese market since 1984, supplying network systems through its local subsidiary Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell.



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