Re Directorate

British Telecommunications PLC
19 September 2001


                         BT ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT OF
                           NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

BT today announced that Dr Iain Anderson will retire as a non-executive director
on 30 September 2001.

Dr Anderson has been on the BT Board for six years.  He is currently chairman of
BT's Pensions Committee, as well as being a member of the Audit, Remuneration 
and Nominating Committees.

He will continue as Chairman of the BT Scotland Board.

BT's Chairman, Sir Christopher Bland, said 'On behalf of the BT Board, I would 
like to thank Iain for his contribution to BT during what we all know has been a
period of immense challenge and change.  I am very pleased that he will be 
continuing to lead the BT Scotland Board'.

Biographical Details

Dr Iain Anderson was appointed to the Board of BT in 1995.  He is Chairman of 
the Board of BT Scotland.

Dr Anderson joined the Board of Unilever in 1988 and was its strategy and 
technology director until he retired in May 1998.  He is chairman of Intense 
Photonics, a non-executive director of Scottish & Newcastle, and a director of 
Scottish Science Trust and the Leverhulme Trust.

He was special adviser to the Prime Minister on Millennium Compliance (Y2K).  He
has also recently been appointed to chair an independent enquiry into the foot 
and mouth epidemic.

Dr Anderson was born on 30 June 1938.

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