**Exhibit 24**

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: 

                  WHEREAS,  Lucent Technologies Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”),  proposes to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, under the provisions  of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, an Annual Report on Form  10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2002; and

                  WHEREAS,  the undersigned is a director of the Company;

                  NOW,  THEREFORE, each of the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Frank A.  D’Amelio, John A. Kritzmacher and Richard J. Rawson, and each of them,  as attorneys-in-fact for and in the name, place and stead of the undersigned,  and in the capacity of the undersigned as a director of the Company, to execute  the above referenced Form 10-K and any amendments or supplements thereto, hereby  giving and granting to said attorneys-in-fact, full power and authority to do  and perform each and every act and thing required and necessary to be done in  and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned  might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each attorney-in-fact  may or shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.

                  IN  WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney on December  12, 2002.

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|  By: | /s/ Paul A. Allaire                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |   |  By: | /s/ Robert E. Denham |
|           |  Name: Paul A. Allaire  Name: Robert E. Denham     By:      /s/ Daniel S. Goldin  By:      /s/ Carla A. Hills Name: Daniel S. Goldin  Name: Carla A. Hills     By:      /s/ Patricia F. Russo  By:      /s/ Henry B. Schacht Name: Patricia F.      Russo  Name: Henry B. Schacht     By:      /s/ Franklin A. Thomas  By:      /s/ John A. Young Name: Franklin A.      Thomas  Name: John A. Young  |