RNS Number:1945Q
Bookham Technology PLC
25 September 2003


Bookham Technology plc
25 September 2003

Oxfordshire, UK - 25 September 2003: Bookham Technology plc announces that on 24
September 2003 it received notification from Marconi Corporation plc ("Marconi")
that Marconi had ceased to be interested in 12,891,000 ordinary shares in
Bookham and no longer had a notifiable interest in the shares of Bookham.


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