Re Deferred Consideration

Telme.Com PLC 25 September 2000 TELME.COM PLC (the 'Company') Acquisition of GB Mailing Systems Limited ('GB')- agreement of initial deferred consideration Pursuant to the acquisition of ('GB'), which was made in July 1998, the Company reports that it has agreed with the vendors of GB the initial amount of the deferred element of the acquisition consideration provided for in the acquisition agreement ('the Agreement'). GB, a Database Management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) company was acquired by TelMe.com plc in July 1998. The initial consideration for the acquisition was £5 million, which was satisfied with a mixture of shares and cash. Under the Agreement, deferred consideration was payable two years after the date of the acquisition subject to performance. The agreed initial earn out amount of £3.4 million of the deferred consideration will be satisfied by the allotment of 6,172,575 new ordinary shares and the payment of £21,750 in cash to cover vendors' expenses. The issue price of the new shares is 54.73 pence per share being the average share price of the Company's shares for the 28 days preceding the determination of the earn out amount in accordance with the mechanism set out in the Agreement. The Company intends to apply for the listing of the new ordinary shares in the week commencing 25 September 2000. An additional earn out amount of a maximum of £0.6 million may be paid under the Agreement subject to further discussions which are expected to be completed by the end of September 2000. The final value of the additional earn out amount when determined and the method of payment will be the subject of a further announcement at the appropriate time. The most recent accounts of the Company, made up to 30 March 2000, contain an accrual for earn out of £3.4 million which was the estimate of the value of the earn out payable made at the time of the acquisition in July 1998. For further information, please contact: TelMe.com plc Graham Ramsey 020 7240 2640 Richard Law 0151 608 0205 Golin/Harris Ludgate Richard Hews/Victoria Martin 020 7253 2252

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