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Lucent Technologies today announced an additional investment of $70 million (US) for its 3G Mobility Research and Development Center in Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu province. The investment will support the expansion of ongoing R&D activities at the center. The new investment reaffirms Lucent's long-term commitment to the development of China's mobile networking industry.

"Our further investment in the Nanjing R&D center reflects our focus on enhancing our R&D capabilities in China and demonstrates the importance of these activities for Lucent's operations worldwide," said Mary Chan, president of Global Wireless Research and Development for Lucent's Mobility Solutions Group. "These investments will enable Lucent to take advantage of the already significant contributions of researchers and engineers in China to support our customers globally."

This investment builds on a recent agreement between Lucent Technologies and the Information Industry Department of Jiangsu Province -- signed at a ceremony at Lucent Technologies' headquarters in Murray Hill, New Jersey on July 23, 2004 -- to collaborate on economic development projects in Jiangsu.

Lucent Technologies' 3G Mobility (Nanjing) R&D Center, which opened in September 2003, focuses on projects supporting the development of 3G spread-spectrum mobile networking technologies including CDMA2000 and Wideband-CDMA (also known as Universal Mobile Telecommunications System or UMTS).

Lucent Technologies, backed by its research arm Bell Labs, is a global leader in the development of commercial 3G spread-spectrum solutions. Lucent's Mobility Solutions Group has deployed 3G CDMA2000, CDMA450, and W-CDMA/UMTS networks with more than 30 mobile operators on the continents of North and South America, Asia, Europe and in the Australia/New Zealand region. Lucent has deployed more than 90,000 spread-spectrum base stations for mobile operators worldwide, of which 50,000 are already supporting 3G services.