Investor Releases
Magyar Telekom informs its shareholders of the continuation of its Extraordinary General Meeting held and suspended on October 9, 2006
Budapest, October 25, 2006
Magyar Telekom (Reuters: NYSE: MTA.N, BÉT: MTEL.BU and Bloomberg: NYSE: MTA US, BÉT: MTELEKOM HB), the leading Hungarian telecommunications service provider hereby informs its shareholders that the company’s Extraordinary General Meeting held and suspended on October 9, 2006 will be continued on November 6, 2006 at 10.00 a.m. at Magyar Telekom Headquarters (1013 Budapest, Krisztina krt. 55., Tölösi Conference Centre).
The agenda of the continued
General Meeting will include the following items (which were not discussed at
the suspended General Meeting):
4. Election of the members
of the Board of Directors
5. Election of the members
of the Supervisory Board
6. Election of the members
of the Audit Committee
7. Miscellaneous
Conditions for
participation and exercising voting rights at the continued General Meeting
Shareholders may exercise
shareholder rights at the General Meeting either in person or through a duly
authorized representative.
a.) Shareholders participating in person identify themselves
with their identity card whereas their ownership is certified through the
ownership certificate issued by their custodian. Shareholders registered in the
Stock Registry but not able to present their ownership certificate may
participate in the General Meeting but may not exercise their voting and
proposal rights.
b.) The proxy shall be set forth in a public instrument or a
private document of full probative force. The proxy should unambiguously apply to
the continued General Meeting to be held on November 6, 2006, except for those representatives
who were originally authorized for the General Meeting held on October 9, 2006
with an authorization which remains valid for the continued General Meeting. The
proxy shall be presented to the representative of the Board of Directors prior
to the commencement of the General Meeting. In case of proxys issued for the
original General Meeting and valid for the continued GM, it will be checked
whether the original proxy has already been presented on October 9, 2006. Regarding ownership certificates, the
provisions of Section a) shall prevail.
c.) Custodians, registered in the Stock Registry and acting
as nominees may act on behalf of the shareholder pursuant to Act CXX of 2001
(Act on Capital Markets).
The condition to exercising
voting rights at the continued General Meeting is that the shareholder or the
nominee
(except proxy holders acting on the basis of
the authorization of the shareholder issued in the form of a public instrument
or a private document of full probative force)
has been registered as such in the Stock
Register by 2006, Septem
ber 29
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an
d their shares have been blocked
from November 3, 2006 at the latest, until the end of the day of the General
Meeting (November 6, 2006).
The blocking of the shares
shall be arranged by their respective custodians - on the basis of the relevant
assignment of the shareholder. Shareholders are informed by their custodians
about the deadline of being registered in the Stock Register. The Company shall
not be held liable for the due performance or failure to perform such
assignments given to custodians and for the relevant consequences.
We wish to remind our
shareholders that the registration will take place from 8.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.
The Company may not be
held liable if a shareholder (or a proxy) misses part of the General Meeting
due to late registration.