Statement re Share Options

Future Network PLC
23 April 2003





23 April 2003



                             THE FUTURE NETWORK PLC



             Notification of Directors' Interests in Share Options





The Future Network plc ('the Company') today announces that, on 22 April 2003,
it received notification from each of the undernoted executive Directors that
they became beneficially interested in the following shares as a result of the
grant by the Company on 18 April 2003 of share options at an exercise price of
52.5p per share: 400,000 to Greg Ingham, Chief Executive; 400,000 to Colin
Morrison, Chief Operating Officer; and 350,000 to John Bowman, Group Finance
Director.



The Company also granted on 18 April 2003 share options to a number of staff
over a total of 4,000,000 shares in the capital of the Company at an exercise
price of 52.5p per share.



All of the share options granted by the Company on 18 April 2003 relate to
ordinary shares of 1p each in the capital of the Company and are subject to
performance criteria which provide that options vest if the growth in the
Company's total shareholder return over a three-year period relative to a
comparator group of companies, described as companies whose shares are listed in
the Media and Entertainment Sector of the London Share Service of the Financial
Times newspaper, reaches the following targets:



(i) if the Company ranks above the 75th percentile of the comparator group the
options will vest in full.


(ii) if the Company ranks above the 50th percentile of the comparator group one
half of the options will vest.


(iii) if the Company ranks below the 50th percentile of the comparator group the
options do not vest.





Enquiries:



The Future Network plc

Greg Ingham, Chief Executive                     Tel:    [phone]

John Bowman, Finance Director



Hogarth Partnership

James Longfield/Georgina Briscoe                 Tel: [phone]




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