Directorate Change

Sarantel Group PLC
11 December 2006


                        Sarantel Group PLC ('Sarantel')

                                Directorate Changes


Sarantel is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Ernest Arthur Richardson
to the Board of Sarantel as Non Executive Director with immediate effect. On the
appointment, Mr Matt Taylor and Mr David Ward will retire from the board.


Ernie, aged 56, is a graduate Chemical Engineer and Chartered Management
Accountant. He is the CEO and Managing Partner of MTI Partners, the private
equity firm, and is also a Director and Chairman of several of MTI's investee
companies with a general focus on software and communications. At MTI he has
been responsible for a number of the firm's most successful transactions. He
became CEO & Managing Partner in 2003.


Geoff Shingles, Non Executive Chairman of Sarantel commented:


'I am delighted to welcome Ernie to the board of Sarantel. We are fortunate to
have his experience and skills available to us at this important stage of the
Group's development. Our thanks go to David Ward and Matt Taylor for their
support over the past few years and we wish them well for the future.'

Ernie is currently a Director of MTI Partners Limited, MTI Managers Limited, MTI
Ventures General Partner Limited, MTI Trustees Limited, MTI3 General Partner
Limited, MTI Executives Limited, MTIP Nominees Limited, MTI Executives 2
Limited, MTI4 General Partner Limited, MTI Nominees Limited, The Message Pad
Limited, MMGS Limited, iBase Image Systems Limited, Digital Communications
Technologies Limited, Chevin Software Engineering Limited, Message Plus Limited,
Nu Holdings Limited, VegaStream Group Limited, and fsdc plc. In the past five
years, he has been a director of Sension Limited, Citel Technologies Limited,
Viewgate Limited, Phocis Limited and Danum Group Limited. He was a Director of
the following companies which went into liquidation: Pace Communications (UK)
Limited, Integrated Vision Systems Limited, Switch Board Limited, Turnright
Controls Limited, Turnright International Limited, IntegriSys Limited, Danum
Group Limited.

There are no other disclosures which are required to be announced pursuant to
paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 to the AIM Rules.


For further information please contact:

Sarantel Group PLC                                         www.sarantel.com
Geoff Shingles, Chairman/David Wither, CEO                 01933 670560

Smithfield                                                 020 7360 4900
Sara Musgrave / Tania Wild


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Notes to Editors:


About Sarantel

Sarantel designs, manufactures and sells patented, ceramic, filtering antennas
for use in portable wireless devices. These antennas allow a clearer signal than
conventional antennas whilst reducing the amount of energy absorbed by the body
by approximately 90 per cent. They also simplify system design, thus allowing
design standardisation and reduced time to market and cost for manufacturers.
Sarantel's antennas significantly improve the performance of wireless systems by
increasing their range and effective bandwidth.


The Company supplies antennas to the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) market

and the North American satellite radio market and Sarantel's antennas have been
successfully designed into Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs), laptops and
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). Sarantel's antenna technology is also
capable of servicing multiple high volume markets such as Wi-Fi, 3G and
Bluetooth.

Sarantel is listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange 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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