Alcatel

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Alcatel SA was a French industrial conglomerate that was active between 1963 and 2006. It had roots in Compagnie Générale d’Electricité (CGE, lit. "General Electricity Company"), a conglomerate founded in 1898 as an early state-owned cable and telephone equipment company that later expanded into construction, shipbuilding and energy. In telecommunications, Alcatel was a major supplier of digital telephone switches, terrestrial and submarine transmission cables, satellite equipment, cellular infrastructure, DSL access equipment and others. Alcatel (originally short for Société Alsacienne de Constructions Atomiques, de Télécommunications et d'Électronique; roughly translates as Alsatian Society of Atomic Constructions, Telecommunications and Electronics) was formed in Mulhouse as part of SACM, an engineering company group. During the late 1960s, the company was absorbed by Compagnie industrielle des télécommunications (CIT), the telecom division of the conglomerate CGE. CGE was nationalised...

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