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      Bill Cockburn

3  THIS NOTIFICATION IS IN RESPECT OF A HOLDING OF:
   The Director named in 2 above

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

5  THIS NOTIFICATION RELATES TO:
   Ilford Trustees (Jersey) Limited is trustee of the BT
   Employee Trust and the BT Employee Trust No.2 of which the Director
   named in 2 above is a discretionary beneficiary.
  
6  NATURE OF TRANSACTION & NATURE & EXTENT OF DIRECTOR'S
   Acquisition of shares following reinvestment of dividends
   on shares held in connection with the BT Executive Share
   Plan and the BT Deferred Bonus Plan. 

7  NUMBER OF SHARES ACQUIRED       8 PERCENTAGE OF ISSUED
                                     CLASS
   a) 703 subject to contingent      Not significant
      awards (Executive Share
      Plan)
   
   b) 234 subject to contingent awards (Deferred Bonus
      Plan)
   
  
   
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 each         Contingent award - no consideration    
                                       for grant

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

15 TOTAL HOLDING (i.e. Director's interests) FOLLOWING THIS
  NOTIFICATION; DETAILS OF SHARE OPTIONS ARE GIVEN AT 22
  BELOW.
  (a) beneficial interest in 22,865 shares

  (b) 96,935 shares subject to contingent awards under the BT
      Executive Share Plan

  (c) 32,345 shares subject to contingent awards under the
      BT Deferred Bonus Plan

 

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
   a) Options over 3,330 shares under the BT Employee
      Sharesave Scheme
   
23 ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The above named director has 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 6,045,540 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 13,353,438 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 DIRECTOR BECAME AWARE OF THE TRANSACTION

   25 February 2000