Holding(s) in Company

Future Network PLC
25 January 2002


                  DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

The Future Network plc

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

Deutsche Bank AG

3)   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of 
     holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a 
     non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
     holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

Notification relates to the shareholder named in 2 above.

4)   Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the 
     number of shares held by each of them.

Please see below

5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.

Not specified

6)   ( Not specified %) of issued Class

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

Not specified

8)   ( Not specified %) of issued Class

9)   Class of security

Ordinary Shares of 1p each

10)  Date of transaction

Not specified

11)  Date company informed

24 January 2002

12)  Total holding following this notification

34,950,838
               
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

10.96%

14)  Any additional information

The holdings are held on behalf of a number of clients whose portfolios are
managed on a discretionary basic by companies within the Deutsche Bank Group
acting as fund managers.

15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

Mr John Bowman
or 
Miss Nina Sparrow

Tel: [phone]

16)  Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for 
     making this notification

     Date of Notification     25 January, 2002



                                   SCHEDULE

                               FUTURE NETWORK PLC 
                             ORDINARY £0.01 SHARES

Held as Principal                                   No of Shares

Deutsche Bank AG London                                   51,650


Held in Customer Portfolios                         

Morgan Nominees                                       16,123,360                                
Morgan Nominees Account CHY                              323,136
Morgan Nominees Account CSL                               68,200
Morgan Nominees Account D131                           1,784,602
Morgan Nominees Account ENF                              213,994
Morgan Nominees Account LAM                              281,006
Morgan Nominees Account MER                               40,748
Morgan Nominees Account NG                                86,849
Morgan Nominees Account SAM                               73,310
Morgan Nominees Account SL                               526,378
Bank of New York Nominees                                219,120
BT Globenet Nominees                                     252,100
Chase Nominees                                         5,326,522
Chase Nominees Account 14186                             133,518
Clydesdale Bank Custodian Nominees                        63,580
Deutsche Bank International Limited                      212,438
HSBC Global Custody Nominees (UK) Ltd                    320,383
Lothian Regional Council                               1,022,577
Nortrust Nominees                                      3,197,903
Royal Bank of Scotland Trust Bank Nominees             2,477,563
State Street Nominees                                  2,149,901

TOTAL                                                 34,950,638


NOTE: The shares comprised under this notification may, from time to time, be 
the subject of a stock lending agreement resulting in a change in registration
but not in DBAG's interest in the shares.


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