BT Cellnet Forecasts for 2000 & 2001

British Telecommunications PLC
10 December 1999



BT CELLNET PROFIT FORECASTS FOR YEARS ENDING MARCH 2000 AND MARCH
2001


The following forecasts are today being provided by BT Cellnet:


                    6 months       6 months        Year
                    to Sept 1999   to March 2000   to March 2000
                    Actual         Forecast        Forecast

Operating      £m   31             99              130
profit

EBITDA         £m   145            235             380

For the year to March 2001 operating profit is forecast to more than
double to at least £300m, with EBITDA forecast at more than £600m.

These forecasts are subject to market growth.

BT Cellnet expects to have 12 million customers by the end of 2002 in
an overall market reaching 67% penetration in the UK.