Having connection problems. Hopefully not a repost.
First, check out this page that details all the spinoffs for Lucent.
http:// www.cost-basis-charts.com/lucent-basis-chart.html
Essentially, it was spun off from AT&T in '96, went through a couple more spin-offs in 2001 and 2002, before being acquired by Alcatel in November of 2006.
Here's where it gets interesting.
In January 2006, the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued AT&T for allowing the NSA to spy on its customers without a warrant. Huge case, went through a bunch of appeals.
The US wanted to invoke the state secrets privilege to get it dismissed, and they tried, but before they needed to, in 2008, Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act (what a coincidence!) that gave AT&T retroactive immunity.
https:// en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepting_v._AT%26T
Meanwhile, Lucent had already been sold off to Alcatel in France in 2006, about a year after the Hepting lawsuit began. Lucent had lost most of it's $250BN market cap in 2000 when it became embroiled in a huge accounting scandal (think WorldCom, Enron, etc). So it limped along until Alcatel bought it.
http:// archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/07/07/345538/index.htm
Guess who oversaw the Lucent IPO when it was spun off from AT&T? CARLY FIORINA. She'd worked at AT&T for 20 years by that point and was close with this woman Aversano, who ran the accounting department and was one of the people who got fined by the SEC during the accounting scandal.
Carly Fiorina ran a failed CA Senate bid a little after the Hepting case and the Alcatel-Lucent merger. She ran into a little controversy after pushing a deal for a company called PathNet, which, if it's this company, is important for creating Artificial General Intelligence (an AI that can essentially handle a variety of tasks, not just playing chess, for instance). How coincidental.
https:// mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/business/dealbook/the-influence-of-fiorina-at-lucent-in-hindsight.html
https:// deepmind.com/research/publications/pathnet-evolution-channels-gradient-descent-super-neural-networks/
So, whatever happened to Alcatel-Lucent? Oh, they just got rolled up into a little company called Nokia in 2016, where I'm sure any and all 5G technology is hard at work.
https:// www.wsj.com/articles/nokia-alcatel-lucent-set-to-put-merger-to-work-1451896364
Way too many coincidences here. Not sure what it leads to, though.