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Telenet Group Holding NV Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2011

Apr 1, 2011

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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement

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VOTING LETTER

Annual General Shareholders' Meeting

April 27, 2011 (3.00 p.m.)

To be returned (together with Dutch version) by registered letter against acknowledgement of receipt at the latest on April 22, 2011 to:

Telenet Group Holding NV Dieter Nieuwdorp, VP Corporate Counsel Liersesteenweg 4 2800 Mechelen, Belgium

The Undersigned (name and first name / Name of the Company)
Residing / Registered Office

Owner of Shares of Telenet Group Holding NV
(Number)

Votes by letter in the following way with respect to the Annual General Shareholders' Meeting, which will be held on

Wednesday April 27, 2011 as from 3.00 p.m.

My vote on the proposed resolutions is as follows: (please mark the appropriate boxes):

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General Shareholders' Meeting

1. Reports on the statutory financial statements
Communication of and discussion on the annual report of the board of directors and the
report of the statutory auditor on the statutory financial statements for the fiscal year
ended on December 31, 2010.
2. Communication and approval of the statutory financial statements
Communication and approval of the statutory financial statements of the Company for
the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2010, and of the proposed allocation of the
result.
Proposed resolution: approval of the statutory financial statements of the Company for
the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2010, including the allocation of the result as
proposed by the board of directors.
 FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
3. Reports on the consolidated financial statements
Communication of and discussion on the annual report of the board of directors and the
report of the statutory auditor on the consolidated financial statements for the fiscal
year ended on December 31, 2010.
4. Communication of and discussion on the remuneration report
Communication of and discussion on the remuneration report, included in the annual
report of the board of directors for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2010.
Proposed resolution: approval of the remuneration report for the fiscal year ended on
December 31, 2010.
 FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
5.
6.
Communication of and discussion on the consolidated financial statements
Communication of and discussion on the consolidated financial statements for the fiscal
year ended on December 31, 2010.
Discharge from liability to the directors
Proposed resolution: to grant discharge from liability to the directors who were in office
during the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2010, for the exercise of their mandate
during said fiscal year.
a/ Frank Donck  FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
b/ Duco Sickinghe  FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
c/ Alex Brabers  FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
d/André Sarens  FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
e/ De Wilde J.

FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN

Management BVBA (Julien De Wilde)

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f/ Friso van Oranje
Nassau
 FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
g/ Cytifinance NV
(Michel Delloye)
 FOR  AGAINST
 ABSTAIN
h/ Charles Bracken  FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
i/ Shane O'Neill  FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
j/ Jim Ryan  FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
k/ Gene Musselman  FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
l/ Bernie Dvorak  FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
m/ Ruth Pirie  FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
n/ Niall Curran  FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
o/ Diederik Karsten  FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
p/ Manuel Kohnstamm  FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
7. Discharge from liability to the statutory auditor
Proposed resolution: to grant discharge from liability to the statutory auditor for the
exercise of his mandate during the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2010.
 FOR
 AGAINST
 ABSTAIN
8. Re-appointment of directors
Taking into account the advice of the nomination committee of the board of directors of
the company, the board of directors recommends adopting the following resolutions,
upon nomination as stated in the articles of association of the company. Fur further
information in relation to the parties involved and their resume, reference is made to
the declaration on corporate governance in the annual report of the board of directors.
Proposed resolutions:
(a)
Appointment, upon nomination in accordance with Article 18.1(ii) of the articles
of association, of Mr. Balan Nair, for a term of 4 years, with immediate effect
and until the closing of the general shareholders' meeting of 2015.
 FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
(b)
Re-appointment, upon nomination in accordance with Article 18.1(ii) of the
articles of association, of Mr. Jim Ryan, for a term of 4 years, with immediate
effect and until the closing of the general shareholders' meeting of 2015.
 FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN

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(c) Re-appointment, upon nomination in accordance with Article 18.1(ii) of the

 FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
2015. Re-appointment, upon nomination in accordance with Article 18.1(ii) of the
articles of association, of Mr. Diederik Karsten, for a term of 4 years, with
immediate effect and until the closing of the general shareholders' meeting of
 FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
Re-appointment, upon nomination in accordance with Article 18.1(ii) of the
articles of association, of Mrs. Ruth Pirie, for a term of 4 years, with immediate
effect and until the closing of the general shareholders' meeting of 2015.
 FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
 FOR immediate effect and until the closing of the general shareholders' meeting of
 AGAINST
Re-appointment, upon nomination in accordance with Article 18.1(ii) of the
articles of association, of Mr. Niall Curran, for a term of 4 years, with
 ABSTAIN
2015.
Re-appointment, upon nomination as provided in the articles of association, of
De Wilde J. Management BVBA, represented by its permanent representative Mr.
Julien De Wilde, as director and "independent director", within the meaning of
Article 526ter of the Belgian Company Code, clause 2.3 of the Belgian Corporate
Governance Code and the articles of association of the company, for a term of 3
years, with immediate effect and until the closing of the general shareholders'
meeting of 2014. It appears from the data available to the company as well as
from the information provided by Mr. Julien De Wilde, that he meets the
applicable independence requirements.
 FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN

independence requirements.

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 FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN

(i) Taking note of the resignation of Mr. Frank Donck and appointment, upon nomination as provided in the articles of association of the company, of Mr. Frank Donck, as director and "independent director", in the meaning of Article 526ter of the Belgian Company Code, clause 2.3 of the Belgian Corporate Governance Code and the articles of association of the company, for a term of 3 years, with immediate effect and until the closing of the general shareholders' meeting of 2014. It appears from the data available to the company as well as from the information provided by Mr. Frank Donck, that he meets the applicable independence requirements.

 FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN

9. Re-appointment of statutory auditor

Proposed resolution :

The board of directors of the Company recommends to re-appoint Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler – Bedrijfsrevisoren CVBA, abbreviated as KPMG Bedrijfsrevisoren CVBA, a civil company that has the form of a cooperative company with limited liability under Belgian law, represented by Mr. Jos Briers and Mr. Götwin Jackers, as statutory auditor of the company for a term of three years which will end immediately after the closing of the annual shareholders' meeting which will have deliberated and voted on the (statutory and consolidated) financial statements for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2013. The remuneration for the exercise of the mandate of statutory auditor is determined at € 530,950 per annum (excluding VAT).

 FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN

10. Approvals and mandates relating to remunerations

Taking into account the Act of April 6, 2010 on the reinforcement of corporate governance in listed companies and autonomous public undertakings and on the modification of the professional prohibitions in the banking and financial sector", and taking into account the advice of the remuneration committee of the board of directors of the company, the board of directors recommends to adopt the following resolution. For further information relating to the remuneration of the members of the board of directors, the executive management and others, reference is made to the remuneration report in the annual report of the board of directors.

Proposed resolution:

The general shareholders' meeting approves the following relating to the remuneration of the members of the board of directors, the CEO and the other members of the executive management:

  • (a) Decision, in as far as needed and applicable, (x) not to consider the options and warrants granted by the company in the past within the framework of its options plans and of which the vesting is only based on the passage of time, as "variable remuneration" for the purposes of Article 520ter of the Belgian Company Code, (y) not to consider them as being part of the "annual remuneration" either for purposes of the determination of the ratio "variable remuneration" versus "annual remuneration":
  • (b) Decision to consider as "variable remuneration" under Article 520ter of the Belgian Company Code, (x) the granting of a cash amount within the framework of a performance based cash bonus plan as part of the "variable remuneration", and (y) the granting of shares within the framework of a share plan with a performance based vesting (so-called "performance shares") as part of the "variable remuneration", whereby the performance based cash bonus is connected to the annual performance criteria, yet whereby the payment of the cash bonus concerned will be spread over several years (for example two) in order to create an additional retention feature, on top of what is required under the applicable legal rules.

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  • (c) Decision to approve the granting of shares within the framework of a share plan with a performance based vesting (so-called "performance shares"), whereby the performance criteria are determined for a three year period.
  • (d) Decision, in as far as needed and applicable, to specifically determine annually the performance based targets (in accordance with the general already approved criteria) on the basis of which the stock options that have been granted to the CEO of the company in the past (under the Specific Stock Option Plan 2010-2014) vest.
  • (e) Decision, in as far as needed and applicable, to (x) (re)confirm, within the framework of the special power the general shareholders' meeting can grant in accordance with Article 523ter of the Belgian Company Code, the features and the conditions of the options and the warrants that have been granted by the company in the past within the framework of its option plans, and (y) give the board of directors of the company the power to determine, at the occasion of new grants of warrants and options within the framework of the previously approved stock option plans, that the options and the warrants will have the same features and conditions as the previously granted options and warrants.
  • (f) Decision, in as far as needed and applicable, to determine that the shares acquired by the employees within the framework of the different stock purchase plans the general shareholders' meeting resolved upon in the past, remain freely transferable after the period of two years (following their acquisition) during which they cannot be transferred.
  • (g) The mandate of the directors appointed in accordance with item 8(a) up to (i) of the agenda, is remunerated in accordance with the resolution of the general shareholders' meeting of April 28, 2010.
 FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN
In case of amendments to a proposed resolution or a new proposed resolution: 1
the Undersigned votes for the amended or new resolution
the Undersigned votes against the amended or new resolution
the Undersigned abstains from the vote on the amended or new resolution
the following person is appointed as special proxy holder, with power of
substitution, to vote in the name of the Undersigned on the amended or new
resolution: Mr./Mrs
1 Absence of instructions on this form or to the proxy holder shall be
tantamount to an instruction to vote for the amended or new resolution.
Done at, on April 2011.
Signature(s):