EXHIBIT
10(iii)(A) 3

FIRST
AMENDMENT TO THELUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. 2003 LONG TERM INCENTIVE PROGRAM

WHEREAS,
Section 13 of the Lucent Technologies Inc. 2003 Long Term  Incentive Plan  (the
2003 Plan) provides that the Board of Directors of Lucent  Technologies  Inc.
(the Board) may amend the 2003 Plan from time to time;

WHEREAS,
pursuant to the recommendation of the Leadership Development  and Compensation Committee
of the Board, the Board approved on July 16,  2004 (the Approval) that the
2003 Plan be amended as set forth  hereunder (the Amendments); and

WHEREAS,
pursuant to the Approval, the Board authorized the Secretary  of the Company to execute
the Amendments to the 2003 Plan.

NOW, THEREFORE,
IT IS RESOLVED that the 2003 Plan is amended as follows:

1. Section
2(f)(iii) of the 2003 Plan, Definitions  Change in  Control, is amended
by  deleting the first clause through and including the first semicolon,  which text is
provided below under the caption Original Clause and  replacing such clause
with the text provided below under the caption  As amended in this First Amendment:

Original
Clause

| | (iii)
The approval by the shareowners of the  Company of a merger, reorganization or
consolidation  or sale or other disposition of all or substantially  all of the assets of
the Company (each, a Corporate  Transaction) or, if consummation of such
Corporate  Transaction is subject, at the time of such approval  by shareowners, to the
consent of any government or  governmental agency, the obtaining of such consent  (either
explicitly or implicitly by consummation);  .  . . 
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As amended in
this First Amendment

| | (iii)
The consummation of a merger,  reorganization or consolidation or sale or other
disposition of all or substantially all of the assets  of the Company (each, a Corporate
Transaction); . .  .
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2. Section
11(a)(i) of the 2003 Plan, Change in Control Provisions  Impact of Event,
is amended by adding the following sentence to the  end of subparagraph (a)(i) thereof:

| | The
exercise period for all Awards, other than  Performance Awards, that become fully and
immediately  exercisable pursuant to this Section 11(a)(i) shall be  determined pursuant
to the terms of the Award  Agreement applicable to such Award.
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Capitalized
terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the  meanings assigned to such
terms in the 2003 Plan.

Except as
modified herein, the 2003 Plan shall continue in full force  and effect in accordance
with its terms.

|Signature: | /s/ William R. Carapezzi, Jr.                                                | 
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|           | William R. Carapezzi, Jr.Senior Vice President,General Counsel and Secretary | 

Dated:  As of
July 16, 2004.