ANT Appoints Stephen Reeder to European Business
Development Team

ANT to grow content rendering business across interactive TV and consumer electronics markets

Cambridge, UK, 17 February 2003

ANT Limited, a leading provider of browser-based content rendering solutions for TV, DVD player and other consumer electronic devices, has strengthened its business development team with the appointment of Stephen Reeder, to help build its European business through customer focus and new accounts.

Reeder brings to ANT 15 years' technical and commercial experience in the telecoms and IT marketplace. As an account director with Lucent Technologies, Reeder was responsible for global account development, and management, for optical transport and VoIP products. Prior to this Reeder headed up new product development for Concert's ASP hosting, after joining from BT where he had held various commercial and technical roles in the Cable TV Services and Consumer Products Divisions.

"The opportunities for ANT in the consumer electronics device market are immense," said Rhys Grossman, Senior Vice President, Business Development. "ANT already has a very impressive customer and partner base and I am very much looking forward to Stephen helping us to further strengthen our market leadership."

About ANT Software Limited

ANT plc (www.antplc.com) is a leading provider of digital TV client and consumer electronic software solutions. ANT's unique client solutions allow robust and consistent delivery of digital-media, user interfaces, interactive services and applications to the TV and portable media devices. ANT enables service providers to efficiently create and deploy successful solutions to the market that deliver high value and clear differentiation.

ANT's products are pre-integrated with many industry-leading solutions and are based upon open standards, enabling low-risk, cost-effective roll-out of services, while ensuring flexible client hardware choice with efficient bill of materials. ANT software has been extensively deployed by customers throughout the world including Chunghwa Telecom, Foxconn, France Telecom, Humax, LG/Nortel, Philips, Sagem, Samsung, SaskTel, Telecom Italia and Thomson.

ANT plc's shares are listed on AIM, a London Stock Exchange regulated market, under the ticker ANTP (Reuters: ANTP.L, Bloomberg: ANTP.LN).

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