Director/PDMR Shareholding

Maintel Holdings PLC
03 January 2007


               Maintel Holdings Plc ('Maintel' or 'the Company')

                            Directors' shareholdings


On 2 January 2007 the Maintel Holdings Plc Share Incentive Plan (an all employee
share purchase plan approved by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) acquired
2,081 Ordinary Shares of 1p each ('Ordinary Shares') in the capital of the
Company, representing 0.02 per cent. of Maintel's issued share capital at a
price of 197p per share. As a result of this purchase, T T Mason, N J Taylor,
and W D Todd, all being directors of Maintel as well as trustees of the Share
Incentive Plan, are deemed to have increased their notifiable interest in the
Company.

This share purchase included the acquisition of 761 Ordinary Shares and 697
Ordinary Shares respectively, for the beneficial interests of J D S Booth and N
J Taylor .

Following this share purchase, the Directors' interests in the Company are as
follows:

Name of                   Shares acquired Total purchase                     Enlarged Total holding
                                               as a % of                      holding     as a % of
                                            issued share                               issued share
                                                 capital                                    capital
Director       Beneficial  Non-beneficial                  Beneficial  Non-beneficial

J D S Booth           761             Nil          0.01%    2,750,761             Nil        22.08%
T T Mason             Nil           2,081          0.02%    2,045,862           5,128        16.46%
N J Taylor            697           1,384          0.02%        7,697           4,431         0.10%
W D Todd              Nil           2,081          0.02%          Nil           5,128         0.04%


3 January 2007


Enquiries:

Tim Mason - Chief Executive 020 7401 4601
Dale Todd - Finance Director 020 7401 0562



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