Directorate Change

Sarantel Group PLC
01 March 2006





                 Sarantel Group PLC ('Sarantel' or 'the Group')

                     Appointment of Non-Executive Director

The Board of Sarantel is pleased to announce the appointment of Matthew Taylor
as a Non-Executive Director with effect from 28th February 2006.

Mr Taylor, aged 42, is a partner in Foresight Venture Partners ('Foresight')
which manages £120 million of venture capital trust funds and holds 14,933,555
ordinary shares, representing approximately 29.3 per cent of the issued share
capital of Sarantel. Foresight is a founding investor in Sarantel and Mr Taylor
was previously a non-executive director of Sarantel Limited until the flotation
of Sarantel in March 2005.

Mr Taylor is currently a non-executive director of Infrared Integrated Systems
Limited, Monactive Limited and TheSkillsMarket Limited. During the past five
years he has been a non-executive director of Heritage Image Partnership
Limited, ANT Limited, smartFOCUS Holdings Limited, and Blue Curve Limited. He
was also a non-executive director of Broadreach Train Services Limited, which
went into administration on 10 October 2005.

Save as disclosed above, there are no further disclosures to be made in
accordance with Rule 17 and Schedule Two (g) of the AIM Rules.

Commenting on the appointment, David Wither, Chief Executive Officer, said:

'We are happy to welcome Matt back to Sarantel. He is very knowledgeable of our
business and has been a long time supporter. We are confident he will be a key
contributor to our future success.'

For further information please contact:

Sarantel Group PLC                                   www.sarantel.com
David Wither, CEO/Sitkow Yeung, CFO                  01933 670560

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Sara Musgrave / Jo Thomas

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Notes to Editors:

About Sarantel

Sarantel designs, manufactures and sells patented, ceramic, filtering antennas
for use in portable wireless devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs),
laptops and Third Generation (3G) mobile devices. Its current focus is on
producing antennas for the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) market which allow
a clearer signal than conventional antennas whilst reducing the amount of energy
absorbed by the body by approximately 90 per cent. The antennas simplify system
design, thus allowing design standardisation and reduced time to market and cost
for manufacturers.

As well as GPS, Sarantel's antenna technology is capable of servicing multiple
emerging high volume markets such as Wi-Fi, 3G, Satellite Radio and Bluetooth.
These markets are expected to be key in the future success of mobile network
operators and device manufacturers. Sarantel's antennas significantly improve
the performance of wireless systems by increasing the range and effective
bandwidth. Sarantel is planning to commence high volume delivery of its antennas
into the satellite radio market within the next 12 months.

Sarantel listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange, on 2nd
March 2005 and is included in the IT Hardware sector (93) within the
Telecommunications equipment sub-sector (938) and has a RIC code of SLG.L




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