Result of Equity Issue

British Telecommunications PLC
17 June 2001

NR 0133


British Telecommunications public limited company ('BT')

17 June 2001


Rights Issue - level of acceptances


The BT rights issue (the 'Rights Issue') closed at 9.30am on Friday, 15 June
2001. BT has received valid acceptances in respect of 1,768,695,260 shares,
representing approximately 89.5% of the total number of new BT shares being
offered.


As a result, and further to BT's announcement of 14 June 2001, Cazenove & Co.
Ltd and Merrill Lynch International will be seeking subscribers for
206,884,792 new BT shares by way of an international tender.


Contacts




Cazenove & Co. Ltd.                         Telephone: [phone]

David Mayhew

Edmund Byers



Merrill Lynch International                    Telephone: [phone]

Rupert Hume-Kendall

Rupert Evenett




This announcement, which has been issued by, and is the sole responsibility
of, British Telecommunications public limited company ('BT'), has been
approved by Cazenove & Co. Ltd and Merrill Lynch International, each of which
is regulated in the UK by The Securities and Futures Authority, solely for the
purposes of Section 57 of the Financial Services Act 1986.


Each of Cazenove & Co. Ltd and Merrill Lynch International is acting for BT
and no one else in connection with the Rights Issue and the International
Tender and will not be responsible to anyone other than BT for providing the
protections afforded to customers of Cazenove & Co. Ltd or Merrill Lynch
International respectively or for providing advice in relation to the Rights
Issue or the International Tender.


This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any
solicitation of an offer, for securities.

The above materials are not an offer of securities for sale in the United
States. The securities being offered in the International Tender may not be
sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from
registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended. A registration
statement relating to these securities has been filed with the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission and has become effective. Any public offering of the
securities in the United States will be made only by means of a US prospectus
containing detailed information regarding BT and BT's management, including
financial statements. Such prospectus is available through BT at 81 Newgate
Street, London EC1A 7AJ.