OKI and Alcatel-Lucent to Collaborate in Marketing OKI's Mobile WiMAX Terminals

Terminals to be showcased at Mobile World Congress 2008
TOKYO--(Business Wire)--
Oki Electric Industry, Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:6703), the leading
Japanese electronic equipment manufacturer, today announced an
agreement with Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU), to jointly market OKI's
mobile WiMAX terminals to the worldwide market. As part of the
agreement, a demonstration showing how OKI terminals work with
Alcatel-Lucent's WiMAX base stations will be featured at
Alcatel-Lucent's booth at Mobile World Congress 2008, which will be
held from Feb. 11 to 14 in Barcelona, Spain (Booth number: 8A147 in
Hall 8).

"We are pleased to be working with Alcatel-Lucent, a global leader
in the field of advanced communications infrastructure technology, to
bring to consumers useful, reliable mobile devices that will enable
them to stay in touch with the people they care about and get the
information they need no matter where they are," said Kichiro Akino,
President of Network Systems Company at Oki Electric Industry. "This
collaboration is an important step in promoting WiMAX technology
worldwide because by working together we will be able to ensure
seamless interoperability between OKI's various mobile WiMAX terminals
and Alcatel-Lucent's WiMAX base stations, making both sets of products
more useful to businesses and consumers alike."

By joining the Open Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) Program, OKI
will work with Alcatel-Lucent to share market data enabling both
companies to better define, test and introduce features earlier,
ensure faster availability of end-to-end solutions and widen the
offering of terminals.

"In signing the Global Co-Marketing and Interoperability Testing
Agreements, OKI joins and further enhances Alcatel-Lucent's Open CPE
Program," said Karim El Naggar, Alcatel-Lucent's WiMAX Vice President.
"This will enable the two companies to offer an end-to-end WiMAX
802.16e-2005 solution that leverages OKI's leadership in developing
compact devices with minimal power consumption."

The two companies will collaborate on conducting interoperability
tests to obtain WiMAX Forum Certification and focus on offering new
devices, developing features and improving overall performance on a
wide range of devices, including CF cards to mobile terminals such as
PCs, PDAs and UMPCs, data cards like USB dongles, and devices with a
WiFi interface.

OKI expects to begin shipping WiMAX compatible products in the
second half of this year, in time to coincide with the commercial
launch of mobile WiMAX service.

About Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Founded in 1881, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. is Japan's first
telecommunications manufacturer, with its headquarters in Tokyo,
Japan. OKI provides top-quality products, technologies and solutions
to its customers through its info-telecom system business,
semiconductor business and printer business. All three businesses
function as a collective force to create exciting new products and
technologies that satisfy a spectrum of customer needs in various
markets. Visit OKI's global web site at www.oki.com/.

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (PARIS:ALU)(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 adjusted proforma revenues of Euro 18.3
billion in 2006 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices
located in Paris. (All figures exclude impact of activities
transferred to Thales). For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on
the Internet: www.alcatel-lucent.com.

Oki Electric Industry, Co., Ltd.
Public Relations Division
For Europe and Americas:
Naomi Takeuchi, +1-408-737-6279
press@oki.com
For Asia and Other Areas:
Akiko Horiguchi, +81-3-3580-8950
press@oki.com

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