**EXHIBIT 24**

POWER OFATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BYTHESE PRESENTS:

     WHEREAS,Lucent Technologies Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes tofile with the Securities and Exchange Commission, under the provisions of the  SecuritiesExchange Act of 1934, as amended, an Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year endedSeptember 30, 2004; 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 William R. Carapezzi, Jr., and each of them, asattorneys-in-fact for and in the name, place and stead of the undersigned, and in thecapacity of the undersigned as a director of the Company, to execute the above referencedForm  10-K and any amendments or supplements thereto, hereby giving and granting to saidattorneys-in-fact, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act andthing required  and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to allintents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying andconfirming all that each  attorney-in-fact may or shall lawfully do or cause to be doneby virtue of this Power of Attorney.

     INWITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney on December 3, 2004.

| By:    | */s/ Robert E. Denham*   |   | By:    | */s/ Edward E. Hagenlocker* |
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|   | Name: Robert E. Denham   |   |   | Name: Edward E. Hagenlocker |
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| By:    | */s/ Daniel S. Goldin*   |   | By:    | */s/ Carla A. Hills*        |
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|   | Name: Daniel S. Goldin   |   |   | Name: Carla A. Hills        |
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| By:    | */s/ Karl J. Krapek*     |   | By:    | */s/ Richard C. Levin*      |
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|   | Name: Karl J. Krapek     |   |   | Name: Richard C. Levin      |
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| By:    | */s/ Patricia F. Russo*  |   | By:    | */s/ Henry B. Schacht*      |
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|   | Name: Patricia F. Russo  |   |   | Name: Henry B. Schacht      |
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| By:    | */s/ Franklin A. Thomas* |   | By:    | */s/ Ronald A. Williams*    |
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|   | Name: Franklin A. Thomas |   |   | Name: Ronald A. Williams    |
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| By:    | */s/ John A. Young*      |   |   |                        |
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|   | Name: John A. Young      |   |   |                        |