Director/PDMR Shareholding

Maintel Holdings PLC
03 January 2008


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

                            Directors' shareholdings


On 2 January 2008 the Maintel Holdings Plc Share Incentive Plan (an all employee
share purchase plan approved by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) acquired
2,524 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 168p 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 893 Ordinary Shares for the
beneficial interest of J D S Booth, held by the trustees of the Share Incentive
Plan.


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

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

J D S Booth        893            Nil        0.007%  2,751,654            Nil      22.21%
T T Mason          Nil          2,524         0.02%  2,046,755         15,004      16.64%
N J Taylor         Nil          2,524         0.02%      7,716         15,181       0.18%
W D Todd           Nil          2,524         0.02%        Nil         15,897       0.13%


For the purposes of the Financial Services Authority's Disclosure and
Transparency Rules, the total number of ordinary shares of 1p of the Company in
issue as at the date of this notice is 12,386,800, with each share carrying the
right to one vote.

There are no shares held in treasury.


The total number of voting rights in the Company is therefore 12,386,800. This
figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by
which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a
change to their interest in the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency
Rules.


3 January 2008



Enquiries:

Tim Mason - Chief Executive 020 7401 4601

Dale Todd - Finance Director 020 7401 0562



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