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Spirent Communications PLC05 October 2007 SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS PLC CANCELLATION OF SHARES HELD IN TREASURY London, UK - 5 October 2007: Spirent Communications plc ("the Company") (LSE:SPT), a leading communications technology company would like to notify themarket in accordance with Listing Rule 12.6.4R, of the following information: The Company has today cancelled 75,000,000 ordinary shares each with a nominalvalue of 3 1/3 pence currently held in Treasury. Following thecancellation of shares held in Treasury, the Company's issued share capitalconsists of 890,039,316 ordinary shares of 3 1/3 pence. The Company nowholds 30,534,172 ordinary shares in Treasury, and the Company is not permittedto exercise voting rights in respect of those ordinary shares. Therefore, thetotal number of voting rights in the Company is 859,505,144. The above figure (859,505,144) may be used by shareholders as the denominatorfor the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notifytheir interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under theFinancial Services Authority Disclosure and Transparency Rules. - ends - EnquiriesMichael Anscombe Spirent Communications plc +44 (0)1293 767672Company Secretary About Spirent Communications plc Spirent Communications plc is a leading communications technology companyfocused on delivering innovative systems and services to meet the needs ofcustomers worldwide. We are a global provider of performance analysis andservice assurance solutions that enable the development and deployment ofnext-generation networking technologies such as broadband services, Internettelephony, 3G wireless and web applications and security testing. The Systemsgroup develops power control systems for specialist electrical vehicles in themobility and industrial markets. Further information about SpirentCommunications plc can be found at www.spirent.com. Spirent Communications plc Ordinary shares are traded on the London StockExchange (ticker: SPT). The Company operates a Level 1 American DepositaryReceipt ("ADR") programme with each ADR representing four Spirent Communicationsplc Ordinary shares. The ADRs trade in the US over-the-counter market under thesymbol SPMYY and the CUSIP number is 84856M209. Spirent and the Spirent logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of SpirentCommunications plc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks mentionedherein are held by their respective companies. All rights reserved. This document may contain forward-looking statements which are made in goodfaith and are based on current expectations or beliefs, as well as assumptionsabout future events. You can sometimes, but not always, identify thesestatements 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 statementsare inherently predictive and speculative and involve risk and uncertaintybecause they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in thefuture. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-lookingstatements, which are not a guarantee of future performance and are subject tofactors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from thoseexpressed or implied by these statements. The Company undertakes no obligationto update any forward-looking statements contained in those document, whether asa result of new information, future events or otherwise. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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