Alcatel-Lucent is in talks to sell its enterprise business to potential buyers, including Unify and Co KG, a Siemens and Gores Group LLC venture, sources said.
The Paris-based enterprise unit, which sells telecommunications equipment and services to companies and had 2012 revenue of €764 million, has also attracted interest from a Chinese investor, a source said.
A sale would allow Alcatel-Lucent to focus on more profitable mobile-phone network contracts and bring the company closer to chief executive Michel Combes’s goal of generating €1 billion from asset disposals by 2015.
The potential buyers are preparing second-round bids, with a decision possible between before March. The unit may be valued at €250 million.