Adm. to CREST/Prpsd Shr Split

BATM Advanced Communications Ld
5 June 2000


             BATM Advanced Communications Limited 
                   ('BATM' or the 'Company')
                              
         Admission to CREST and proposed share split


BATM  Advanced  Communications  Limited,  the  London  Stock
Exchange-listed developer of high speed IP packet based data
communications  equipment, announces that  from  today  BATM
shareholders  will  be  able to  settle  their  BATM  shares
through  CREST's electronic settlement system.  Shareholders
can  now  choose  to  hold their BATM shares  electronically
through   CREST  by  way  of  CREST  Depositary  Instruments
('CDIs').   BATM  CDIs  are  securities  constituted   under
English  Law  which represent BATM shares on a one  for  one
basis  and  will have the same security code (ISIN)  as  the
underlying  BATM  shares which are  already  listed  on  the
London Stock Exchange.

BATM CDIs can be credited to the same member account as  all
the  other  CREST  investments of any  particular  investor.
This means that, from a practical point of view, BATM shares
held  through CDIs will be held and transferred in the  same
way as other companies' shares participating in CREST.

BATM  shareholders  who  wish  to  continue  to  settle   in
materialised  form can continue to trade by means  of  stock
transfer and hold share certificates.

As  previously  announced, the Board of BATM  proposes  that
shareholders  amend  the  articles  of  association  of  the
Company at the forthcoming AGM, on 26 June 2000, to allow  a
ten  for one share split to be effected.  Trading in the new
shares  is  expected  to  commence  on  Monday,  3rd   July.
Further details will be announced in due course.



Further enquires:

BATM Advanced Communications Limited            www.batm.com
Ofer Bar-Ner, Finance Director             00 972 3 938 6886
                                  
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Edward Macquisten                              020 7253 2252