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                                                   Exhibit 99
                                                   AT&T Capital Corporation
                                                   Form 8-K March 9, 1998


                 Newcourt signs expanded vendor financing
                   arrangement with Lucent Technologies

Toronto, Canada, March 11, 1998 'Newcourt Credit Group today announced that 
it has signed a new five-year agreement with Lucent Technologies to expand 
the global financing program established to serve Lucent's business systems 
customers.   Worldwide financing volume, as a result of this new 
arrangement, may reach US$1 billion (C$1.4b) in 1998.     

The new agreement follows Newcourt's recent acquisition of AT&T Capital 
Corporation.   AT&T Capital has been Lucent's preferred provider of 
equipment financing for business customers primarily in the United States 
since 1996.   The new arrangement replaces the current agreement and is in 
effect until Sept. 30, 2002.  

Under terms of the agreement, a new organization, using the name Lucent 
Technologies Product Finance (LTPF), will be formed at Newcourt and 
dedicated to meeting the financing needs of Lucent's business customers.  
As global manager for LTPF, Newcourt will have the opportunity to provide 
leasing services to Lucent's business customers worldwide.  LTPF also will 
work with third parties to provide the services when appropriate.  In cases 
where Newcourt provides the financing, Newcourt will have authority for all 
credit decisions.

'With this break-through agreement, our company's solid relationship with 
Lucent not only continues, but is strengthened and expanded,' said Bradley 
D. Nullmeyer, President of Newcourt Financial, Newcourt's commercial 
finance business.  'Going forward Newcourt will have the opportunity to 
provide Lucent, directly or indirectly, with vendor financing support in 
each of the countries where Lucent does business,' noted Tim Hammill, 
Chairman of Lucent Technologies Product Finance.


'As we've demonstrated in other ventures, Newcourt can develop innovative 
programs that meet the demanding global financial needs of our vendors,' 
added Nullmeyer.  'With our new aligned interests in place, LTPF can 
realize significant long term growth and better serve customers,' added 
Hammill.

'Equipment financing is important to many of our customers,' said Susan 
Loughridge, international vice president, Global Leasing Services, Lucent 
Technologies. 'With a new organization dedicated to meeting customers 
financing needs, we can bring even greater focus and expertise to serving 
those customers.' 

The arrangement includes specific financial and service performance levels 
tied to compensation and a single point of contact for customers.   











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Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds 
and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications 
systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems 
and microelectronics components.  Bell Laboratories is the research and 
development arm of the company.  For more information about Lucent 
Technologies, visit its web site at http://www.lucent.com.

The combination of Newcourt Credit Group and AT&T Capital has created one 
of the world's leading sources of asset-based financing serving the 
corporate, commercial and institutional markets with owned and managed 
assets of US$21.8 billion (C$31.2b) and a global distribution capability in 
24 countries.