Very very verwaayen dun gud

Ben Verwaayen’s done good, hasn’t he?� Chairman of Alcatel-Lucent?� Right on.� He’s come along way since I saw him speak at BT Centre YEARS ago about how well BT was doing with broadband.� I almost stormed the stage yelling, ‘But I get 20k/sec throughput? You call this broadband.’

Anyway.� Did you catch the news via FierceWireless?

It took Alcatel-Lucent just two months to secure a new leadership team. The company today announced that former British Telecom executive Ben Verwaayen will replace Patricia Russo as CEO of the firm and French businessman Philippe Camus, a former chief executive with European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, will replace Serge Tchuruk as chairman.