Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

British Telecommunications PLC
5 September 2000

NOTIFICATION OF INTERESTS OF DIRECTORS AND CONNECTED PERSONS

1  NAME OF COMPANY                 2   NAME OF DIRECTOR
   British Telecommunications plc      Bill Cockburn

3  THIS NOTIFICATION IS IN RESPECT OF A HOLDING OF:
   Mrs S.E. Cockburn, the director's spouse

4  NAME OF THE REGISTERED HOLDER
   Coutts and Co. A/C SCP

5  THIS NOTIFICATION RELATES TO:
   See (3) above
  
6  NATURE OF TRANSACTION & NATURE & EXTENT OF DIRECTOR'S INTEREST
   Acquisition of shares under the PEP Dividend Reinvestment arrangement,     
   which is part of a Discretionary Management Agreement. 

7  NUMBER OF SHARES ACQUIRED       8 PERCENTAGE OF ISSUED
                                     CLASS
   9                                 Not significant
   
9  NUMBER OF SHARES DISPOSED       10 PERCENTAGE OF ISSUED                    
   OF                                 CLASS
   Not applicable                     Not applicable

11 CLASS OF SECURITY               12 PRICE PER SHARE
   Ordinary Shares of 25p each        £9.07

13 DATE OF TRANSACTION             14 DATE COMPANY INFORMED
   4 July 2000                        4 September 2000

15 TOTAL HOLDING (i.e. Director's interests) FOLLOWING THIS
  NOTIFICATION; DETAILS OF SHARE OPTIONS ARE GIVEN AT 22
  BELOW.
  (a) Beneficial interest in 22,931 shares

  (b) 97,138 shares subject to contingent awards under the BT
      Executive Share Plan

  (c) 32,414 shares subject to contingent awards under the
      BT Deferred Bonus Plan

16 TOTAL PERCENTAGE HOLDING OF ISSUED CLASS FOLLOWING THIS
   NOTIFICATION
   Not significant

17 DATE OF GRANT                   18  PERIOD DURING WHICH OR
                                       DATE ON WHICH EXERCISABLE
   Not applicable                      Not applicable
   
19 TOTAL AMOUNT PAID FOR GRANT     20  DESCRIPTION OF SHARES
   OF INVOLVED OPTION
   Not applicable                      Not applicable

21 EXERCISE PRICE (FIXED AT TIME OF GRANT)
   Not applicable

22 TOTAL NUMBER OF SHARES OVER WHICH THE DIRECTORS HOLDS
   OPTIONS FOLLOWING THIS NOTIFICATION
   a)   3,330 - BT Employee Sharesave Scheme
   
23 ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The above named director has other technical interests
under Section 13 of the Companies Act 1985 as follows:

- under the BT Employee Share Ownership Scheme, a technical
interest, together with all employees of BT, in 90,722 shares
held in the name of BT Employee Shares Trustees Limited;

- under the BT Executive Share Plan, a technical interest,
together with all employees of BT, in 5,221,551 shares held in
trust in the name of Ilford Trustees (Jersey) Limited as
discretionary beneficiaries of the BT Employee Trust; and

- a technical interest, together with all employees
of BT, in 3,544,400 shares held in trust in the name of Ilford
Trustees (Jersey) Limited as discretionary beneficiaries of
the BT Employee Trust No. 2.

-  a technical interest, together with all employees of BT,
in 9,844,142 shares held in trust in the name of Ilford
Trustees (Jersey) Limited as discretionary beneficiaries of
the BT Employee Trust No.4.

24 DATE THAT DIRECTOR BECAME AWARE OF THE TRANSACTION

   4 September 2000