# Alcatel French telecommunications equipment company that merged with [[wiki/Lucent Technologies|Lucent Technologies]] in 2006 to form [[wiki/Alcatel-Lucent|Alcatel-Lucent]], which was subsequently acquired by [[wiki/Nokia|Nokia]] in 2016. The Alcatel-Lucent merger brought [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] into a Franco-American corporate structure before its transfer to Finnish ownership. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].