Symbian pre-emption process to commence

LONDON, United Kingdom – 11th June 2004 – Symbian Software Limited notes that approval for the proposed sale of Psion PLC's holding in Symbian has been granted by competition authorities in Austria, Finland and Germany. 

Symbian has now received formal notification from Shareholders to progress the sale and has therefore initiated the pre-emption process as set out in the company’s Shareholders’ Agreement.  This process enables Shareholders to subscribe for a proportion of the shares being sold.

Symbian anticipates that the pre-emption process will be completed during the first week of July 2004.

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Notes to Editors

1. Current shareholdings in Symbian

 

2. About Symbian

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers.  The following Symbian OS licensees have Symbian OS-based mobile phones in production and development: Arima, BenQ, Fujitsu for NTT DoCoMo FOMA, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Sendo, Siemens, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. In 2003, over 6.67 million Symbian OS-based mobile phones were sold worldwide and more than 12 million have been sold to date.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.

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