Director/PDMR Shareholding

Maintel Holdings PLC
01 April 2008


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

                            Directors' shareholdings


On 31 March 2008 the Maintel Holdings Plc Share Incentive Plan (an all employee
share purchase plan approved by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) acquired 790
Ordinary Shares of 1p each ('Ordinary Shares') in the capital of the Company,
representing 0.006 per cent of Maintel's issued share capital at a price of
157.5p 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              790        0.006%  2,045,862         18,911      17.00%
N J Taylor             790        0.006%      7,716         18,195       0.21%
W D Todd               790        0.006%        Nil         18,911       0.16%


For the purposes 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 12,146,800, 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 12,146,800. 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 April 2008


Enquiries:

Tim Mason - Chief Executive 020 7401 4601

Dale Todd - Finance Director 020 7401 0562

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