Espoo, Finland - A total of 153,750 shares of Nokia Corporation ("Nokia") were subscribed for as of July 31, 2006 based on Nokia's 2003 employee stock option plan. This resulted in an increase of EUR 9,225 in Nokia's share capital and an increase of EUR 2,153,147.58 in shareholders equity. The new shares carry full shareholder rights as from the registration date, August 4, 2006. The shares are admitted to public trading on the Helsinki Exchanges as of the same date together with the old Nokia share class (NOK1V).
As a result of the increase, the share capital of Nokia is currently EUR 245,645,091.66 and the total number of shares is 4,094,084,861 including the shares that are held by the company.
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