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February 13, 2008 2:05 AM PST

Alcatel, where are you?

Alcatel phones in the company's booth

(Credit: Kent German/CNET Networks)

At last year's CTIA cell phone show, French telecom giant Alacatel announced that it was entering the U.S. and Canadian handset market. It showed off a gallery of phones and even staged a fashion show. But now almost a year later, none of the handsets have hit the market (AT&T was supposed to be in a testing phase) so at the GSMA World Congress to check out the company's booth. On display were many of the same models we saw last year, including the OT-C707A and the OT-C717A (not the best naming conventions, I know). Not that I'm particularly itching to see these phones land in North America, but I wanted to see if there was any update on availability just the same. And as of now, there's not.

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