NAPERVILLE, Ill., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tellabs will host an investor teleconference to discuss its fourth-quarter and year-end 2008 results at 7:30 a.m. Central Standard Time on Tuesday, Jan. 27. The results news release will be available on http://www.tellabs.com at 6:00 a.m. Central Standard Time that day.

To access a simultaneous webcast of the teleconference, go to the Tellabs Web site at http://www.tellabs.com and click on the webcast icon. From this site, you can download the necessary software and listen to the teleconference. Tellabs encourages you to review the site before the teleconference to ensure your computer is configured properly.

A taped replay of the call will be available at approximately 10:30 a.m. Central Standard Time on Jan. 27. This toll-free replay will be available until 10:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Thursday, Jan. 29. A podcast of the call will be posted at http://www.tellabs.com/news/feeds/ on the afternoon of Jan. 27.

To listen to the teleconference replay, call 800-642-1687. (Outside the United States, call 706-645-9291.) When prompted, enter the Tellabs conference ID number: 80042726.

About Tellabs -- Tellabs advances telecommunications networks to meet the evolving needs of users. Solutions from Tellabs enable service providers to deliver high-quality voice, video and data services over wireline and wireless networks around the world. Tellabs (Nasdaq: TLAB) is part of the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Ocean Tomo 300TM Patent Index, the S&P 500 and several corporate responsibility indexes including FTSE4Good and eight KLD indexes. http://www.tellabs.com

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