Director/PDMR Shareholding

Maintel Holdings PLC
01 February 2007


               Maintel Holdings Plc ('Maintel' or 'the Company')

                            Directors' shareholdings


On 31 January 2007 the Maintel Holdings Plc Share Incentive Plan (an all
employee share purchase plan approved by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs)
acquired 1,202 Ordinary Shares of 1p each ('Ordinary Shares') in the capital of
the Company, representing 0.01 per cent of Maintel's issued share capital at a
price of 205p per share. As a result of this purchase, T T Mason, N J Taylor,
and W D Todd, all being directors of Maintel as well as trustees of the Share
Incentive Plan, are deemed to have increased their notifiable interest in the
Company.


Following this share purchase, the Directors' interests in the Company are as
follows:

Name of             Shares         Total     Enlarged holding            Total
                  acquired purchase as a                            holding as
Director                     % of issued                                a % of
                           share capital                                issued
            Non-beneficial               Beneficial Non-beneficial       share
                                                                       capital

T T Mason            1,202         0.01%  2,045,862          6,330      16.47%
N J Taylor           1,202         0.01%      7,697          5,633       0.11%
W D Todd             1,202         0.01%        Nil          6,330       0.05%


For the purposes of the transitional provisions of the Financial Services
Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the total number of ordinary
shares of 1p of the Company in issue as at the date of this notice is
12,456,800, with each share carrying the right to one vote.

There are no shares held in treasury.


The total number of voting rights in the Company is therefore 12,456,800. This
figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by
which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a
change to their interest in the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency
Rules.


1 February 2007


Enquiries:

Tim Mason - Chief Executive 020 7401 4601

Dale Todd - Finance Director 020 7401 0562



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