VOL. XLI

No. 43

26-October-1998

TELECOMS

Lucent Predicts Exponential Boom In Middle East And North AfricaTelecoms

Lucent Technologies Business Communications Systems (BCS), the US-basedtelecoms giant, announced on 7 October that it will increase the level of its investmentin the 30-country market of the Middle East and North Africa and create aregional operation for the Middle East and Africa from what was previously a sub-regionalstructure. According to a company statement, Lucent Technologies...