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NovAtel Inc. to Release First Quarter 2005 Earnings

For Immediate Release

Contact:

Sonia Ross (403) 295-4532

( Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 6, 2005) – NovAtel Inc. (NASDAQ:NGPS) will release its first quarter 2005 earnings on May 11, 2005 before the market opens.

The company will have a conference call the same day at 4:30 p.m. ET. Participants may access the NovAtel Inc. conference call by dialing 1-800-565-0813 ( North America) or 416-695-9707 (International). This call is also being web cast and can be accessed at NovAtel’s web site www.novatel.com or at www.fulldisclosure.com.

A replay of the conference call will be available until May 18, 2005 by dialing 1-888-509-0082 ( North America) or 416-695-5275 (International), or until July 15, 2005 at the web addresses noted above.

The web cast is also being distributed over CCBN’s Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN’s individual investor centre at www.fulldisclosure.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN’s Individual Investor Network such as America Online’s Personal Finance Channel, Fidelity Investments® (Fidelity.com) and others. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN’s password -protected event management site, StreetEvents ( www.streetevents.com).

NovAtel designs, markets and sells high-precision GPS and other positioning components and sub-systems used in a wide variety of commercial applications principally in the aviation, geomatics (surveying and mapping), mining, precision agriculture, marine and defence industries. NovAtel’s solutions combine hardware, such as receivers and antennas, with software to enable its customers to fully integrate the Company’s high-precision GPS technology into their respective products and systems. The Company is focused on supplying core high-precision positioning technology to OEMs and system integrators who build systems for various end market applications. For more information, visit www.novatel.com.