Cancellation of Treasury Shar

RNS Number : 3720J

Spirent Communications PLC

02 December 2008

 



SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS PLC

CANCELLATION OF SHARES HELD IN TREASURY AND 

CONFIRMATION OF TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL

London, UK - 02 December 2008: Spirent Communications plc ("the Company") (LSE: SPT), a leading communications technology company would like to notify the market in accordance with Listing Rule 12.6.4R, of the following information:

The Company has today cancelled 67,287,131 Ordinary Shares each with a nominal value of 3⅓ pence currently held in Treasury.  

Following the cancellation of Ordinary Shares held in Treasury, and the cancellation of 52,856,169 Ordinary Shares repurchased by the Company as part of the Tender Offer process (as announced on 27 November 2008), the Company's issued share capital consists of 675,861,517 Ordinary Shares of 3⅓ pence each. The Company now holds no Ordinary Shares in Treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 675,861,517.

The above figure (675,861,517) may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Services Authority Disclosure and Transparency Rules.   Any such notifications should be sent by fax to [phone] or by email to [e-mail] marked for the attention of the Company Secretary.

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Enquiries

Michael Anscombe Company Secretary

Spirent Communications plc

[phone]

About Spirent Communications plc

Spirent Communications plc is a leading communications technology company focused on delivering innovative systems and services to meet the needs of customers worldwide. We are a global provider of performance analysis and service assurance solutions that enable the development and deployment of next-generation networking technologies such as broadband services, Internet telephony, 3G wireless and web applications and security testing. The Systems group develops power control systems for specialist electrical vehicles in the mobility and industrial markets. Further information about Spirent Communications plc can be found at www.spirent.com.

Spirent Communications plc Ordinary shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange (ticker: SPT). The Company operates a Level 1 American Depositary Receipt ("ADR") programme with each ADR representing four Spirent Communications plc Ordinary shares. The ADRs trade in the US over-the-counter market under the symbol SPMYY and the CUSIP number is 84856M209.

Spirent and the Spirent logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Spirent Communications plc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned herein are held by their respective companies. All rights reserved.

This document may contain forward-looking statements which are made in good faith and are based on current expectations or beliefs, as well as assumptions about future events. You can sometimes, but not always, identify these statements by the use of a date in the future or such words as "will", "anticipate", "estimate", "expect", "project", "intend", "plan", "should", "may", "assume" and other similar words. By their nature, forward-looking statements are inherently predictive and speculative and involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of future performance and are subject to factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in those document, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

 

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