1006240--12/14/2006--LUCENT_TECHNOLOGIES

related topics

{customer, product, revenue}

{property, intellectual, protect}

{product, market, service}

{cost, regulation, environmental}

{cost, contract, operation}

{system, service, information}

{competitive, industry, competition}

{regulation, government, change}

{cost, operation, labor}

{debt, indebtedness, cash}

{financial, litigation, operation}

{condition, economic, financial}

Uncertainties Associated With the Merger May Cause a Loss of Employees and May Otherwise Materially Adversely Affect Our Future Business and Operations. We Operate in a Highly Competitive Industry with Many Participants. Our Failure to Compete Effectively Would Harm Our Business. Technology Drives Our Products and Services. If We Fail to Keep Pace with Technological Advances in Our Industry, or If We Pursue Technologies That Do Not Become Commercially Accepted, Customers May Not Buy Our Products or Use Our Services. A Small Number of Our Customers Account for a Substantial Portion of Our Revenues, and Most of Our Revenues Come from Telecommunications Service Providers. The Loss of One or More Key Customers or Reduced Spending of These Service Providers Could Significantly Reduce Our Revenues, Profitability and Cash Flow. The Telecom Industry Fluctuates and Is Affected By Many Factors, Including Decisions By Service Providers Regarding Their Deployment of Technology and Their Timing of Purchases, as Well as Demand and Spending for Communications Services By Businesses and Consumers. We Have Long-Term Sales Agreements with a Number of Our Large Customers. Some of These Agreements May Prove Unprofitable As Our Costs and Product Mix Shift Over the Lives of the Agreements. We Rely on Two Contractors to Provide Most of the Components and Products We Design. If Either of Them Fails to Deliver Quality Components and Products at Reasonable Prices on a Timely Basis, We May Not Be Able to Fulfill Our Obligations to Some of Our Customers. Our Pension and Postretirement Benefit Plans Are Large and Have Funding Requirements That Fluctuate Based on the Performance of the Financial Markets and the Level of Interest Rates and May Be Affected By Changes in Legal Requirements. These Plans Are Also Costly, and Our Efforts to Fund or Control Those Costs May Be Ineffective. Many of Our Current and Planned Products Are Highly Complex and May Contain Defects or Errors That Are Detected Only After Deployment in Telecommunications Networks. If That Occurs, Our Reputation May Be Harmed. Rapid Changes to Existing Regulations or Technical Standards or the Implementation of New Ones for Products and Services Not Previously Regulated Could Be Disruptive, Time-Consuming and Costly to Us. We Are Involved in Lawsuits, Which, If Determined against Us, Could Require Us to Pay Substantial Damages. If We Fail to Protect Our Intellectual Property Rights, Our Business and Prospects May Be Harmed. We Are Subject to Intellectual Property Litigation and Infringement Claims, Which Could Cause Us to Incur Significant Expenses or Prevent Us from Selling Certain Products. We Are Subject to Environmental, Health and Safety Laws that Restrict Our Operations. Our Business Requires a Significant Amount of Cash, and We May Require Additional Sources of Funds if Our Sources of Liquidity Are Unavailable or Insufficient to Fund Our Operations. Credit and Commercial Risks and Exposures Could Increase If the Financial Condition of Our Customers Declines.

Full 10-K form ▸

1006240--12/14/2006--LUCENT_TECHNOLOGIES_INC