Investor Releases

Budapest, March 2, 2009 14:00

The Board of Directors of Magyar Telekom Telecommunications Public Limited Company (headquarters: 1013 Budapest, Krisztina krt. 55.) hereby notifies Shareholders that the Company will hold its Annual General Meeting at 11.00 a.m. on April 2, 2009.

Venue of the General Meeting:

The headquarters of the Company, Tölösi Conference Center
Budapest I., Krisztina krt. 55.

Way of organizing the General Meeting: participation in person

Agenda of the General Meeting:

1. Report of the Board of Directors on the management of Magyar Telekom Plc., on the business operation, on the business policy and on the financial situation of the company and Magyar Telekom Group in 2008; 

2. Decision on the approval of the 2008 consolidated annual financial statements of the company prescribed by the Accounting Act according to the requirements of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS); presentation of the relevant report of the Supervisory Board, the Audit Committee and the Auditor; 

3. Decision on the approval of the 2008 annual stand alone financial statements of the Magyar Telekom Plc. prepared in accordance with requirements of the Accounting Act (HAR); presentation of the relevant report of the Supervisory Board, the Audit Committee and the Auditor; 

4.  Proposal of the Board of Directors for the use of the profit after tax earned in 2008; presentation of the relevant report of the Supervisory Board, the Audit Committee and the Auditor; decision on the use of the profit after tax earned in 2008; 

5. Decision on the approval of the Corporate Governance and Management Report;  

6. Decision on granting relief from liability to the members of the Board of Directors 

7. Decision on the modification of the Articles of Association of Magyar Telekom Plc. (1.4 (a) Sites of the Company; 2.5.3. and 5.3: The Shareholders’ Register and Closing of the Shareholders’ Register; 7.4.1.(a): The Board of Directors; 7.8: Liability of Directors; 8.6: Liabilities of Members of the Supervisory Board; 9.1: The Auditor/Election); 

8. Election of Members of the Board of Directors 

9. Election of Members of the Supervisory Board; 

10. Approval of the Remuneration guidelines; 

11. Election of the Company’s Auditor and determination of its remuneration. Designation of the Auditor who will be personally responsible for the audit of the Company and designation of the deputy auditor. 

Conditions for participation and exercising voting rights at the General Meeting

Shareholders may exercise shareholder’s rights at the General Meeting either in person or through a duly authorized representative.
a.)   Shareholders participating in person may identify themselves with their identity card or passport whereas their ownership is certified through the ownership certificate issued by their custodian. Shareholders registered in the Stock Registry but not being able to present their ownership certificate may participate the General Meeting but may not exercise their voting right and right of making proposals.
b.)   The proxy shall be set forth in a public instrument or a private document providing full evidence. The proxy shall be presented during the registration procedure prior to the commencement of the General Meeting. 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 of exercising voting rights at the 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 providing full evidence) is registered as such in the Stock Register at least six (6) working days prior to the date of the General Meeting (i.e. latest by March 26, 2009) and froze their shares up until the day of the GM (including the day of the GM). With regard to registry in the Stock Register Magyar Telekom Plc. will request the identification of registered shares, issued by Magyar Telekom in the face value of HUF 100 under serial number HU0000073507 ISIN from KELER Zrt. with the turning date of March 25, 2009. The registry of shareholders in the Stock Registry and the freezing of 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 registry into the Stock Register. The Company shall not be held liable for any failure to fulfill the assignments given to custodians and for the relevant consequences. The closing of the Stock Register will take place at 3.00 p.m., on March 26, 2009.

The registration will take place from 9 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
In the event of a later registration than the above indicated period the Company may not be held liable if the shareholder (or the proxy) misses part of the General Meeting due to late registry.

If the General Meeting does not have a quorum, the Board of Directors convokes the repeated General Meeting to April 2, 2009 at 1.00 p.m. with the same agenda and at the same venue. The repeated General Meeting shall have a quorum irrespective of the number of shareholders/votes being present.

The Board of Directors of Magyar Telekom Telecommunications Public Limited Company

Announcement on the availability of the documents of the General Meeting

We wish to inform our shareholders that the written submissions prepared and available with regard to the Annual General Meeting to be held on April 2, 2009 can be viewed from March 17, 2009 at the customer service office of KELER Ltd. (1075 Budapest, Asbóth u. 9-11.) between 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., on the web site of Magyar Telekom Plc. (www.magyartelekom.hu), on the web site of the Budapest Stock Exchange (www.bet.hu) and at the place of the General Meeting from the commencement of registration (April 2, 2009, 9.00 a.m.).