Crawley, UK -- (MARKET WIRE) -- October 20, 2006 --
Spirent Communications Plc Transaction in Own Shares Spirent Communications PLC announces that it has today purchased through Citigroup Global Markets U.K. Equity Limited 1,000,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 60.4043 pence per share. The highest price and the lowest price paid for these shares were 60.75 pence and 59.75 pence respectively. Following the above purchase, Spirent Communications plc holds 79,790,000 Spirent Communications plc ordinary shares in treasury, and has 894,417,240 Spirent Communications plc ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange