Directors' Dealings

British Telecommunications PLC
25 February 2000



NOTIFICATION OF INTERESTS OF DIRECTORS AND CONNECTED PERSONS

1  NAME OF COMPANY                 2   NAME OF DIRECTOR
   British Telecommunications plc      Sir Iain Vallance
                                       Sir Peter Bonfield
                                       Robert Brace
                                       Bill Cockburn
                                     
                                     
3  THIS NOTIFICATION IS IN RESPECT OF A HOLDING OF:
   The Directors named in 2 above

4  NAME OF THE REGISTERED HOLDER
   Ilford Trustees (Jersey) Limited

5  THIS NOTIFICATION RELATES TO:
   Reinvestment of dividends by Ilford Trustees (Jersey) 
   Limited which is trustee of the BT Employee Trust and BT 
   Employee Trust No.2 of which the Directors
   named in 2 above are discretionary beneficiaries.
  
6  NATURE OF TRANSACTION & NATURE & EXTENT OF DIRECTOR'S
   INTEREST IN TRANSACTION
   The above named directors have acquired the following technical interests  
   under Schedule 13 of the Companies Act 1985:

   - a technical interest, together with all employees of 
   BT plc, in 42,374 shares held in the BT Employee Trust

   - a technical interest, together with all
   employees of BT plc, in 20,782 shares held in the BT
   Employee Trust No.2.

7  NUMBER OF SHARES ACQUIRED       8 PERCENTAGE OF ISSUED
                                     CLASS
   63,156 shares                     Not significant
   
9  NUMBER OF SHARES DISPOSED      10 PERCENTAGE OF ISSUED                     
   OF                                CLASS
   Not applicable                    Not applicable

11 CLASS OF SECURITY              12 PRICE PER SHARE
  Ordinary Shares of 25p             Date      No. of shares   Price per share
                                     14.02.00  33,612          990  pence*
                                     14.02.00  16,215          990  pence**
                                     25.02.00  8,762           1138 pence*
                                     25.02.00  4,567           1138 pence**
                                  
                                     *  BT Employee Trust
                                     ** BT Employee Trust No. 2
                                       

13 DATE OF TRANSACTION            14 DATE COMPANY INFORMED
   14/25 February 2000              25 February 2000

15 TOTAL HOLDING (i.e. Directors' interests) FOLLOWING THIS
  NOTIFICATION; DETAILS OF SHARE OPTIONS ARE GIVEN AT 22
  BELOW.
  See following notifications of individual directors' interests.

16 TOTAL PERCENTAGE HOLDING OF ISSUED CLASS FOLLOWING THIS
NOTIFICATION
   Not significant

17 DATE OF GRANT                  18 PERIOD DURING WHICH OR
                                     DATE ON WHICH EXERCISABLE
   Not applicable                    Not applicable
   
19 TOTAL AMOUNT PAID FOR GRANT    20 DESCRIPTION OF SHARES
   OF INVOLVED OPTION
   Not applicable                    Not applicable

21 EXERCISE PRICE (FIXED AT TIME OF GRANT)
   Not applicable

22 TOTAL NUMBER OF SHARES OVER WHICH THE DIRECTORS HOLDS
   OPTIONS FOLLOWING THIS NOTIFICATION
   No change since previous notification of directors'
   interests.
   
23 ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The above named directors have other technical interests
under Section 13 of the Companies Act 1985 as follows:

- a technical interest, together with all employees of BT, 
in 78,454 shares held in the name of BT Employee Shares 
Trustees Limited;

- a technical interest, together with all employees of BT, 
in 6,003,166 shares held in trust in the name of Ilford 
Trustees (Jersey) Limited as discretionary beneficiaries 
of the BT Employee Trust; and

- a technical interest, together with all employees
of BT, in 13,322,656 shares held in trust in the name of
Ilford Trustees (Jersey) Limited as discretionary
beneficiaries of the BT Employee Trust No. 2.



24 DATE THAT DIRECTORS BECAME AWARE OF THE TRANSACTION

   25 February 2000