Directorate Change

Sarantel Group PLC
18 October 2006



Embargoed until 0700 hours                                      18 October 2006

                        Sarantel Group PLC ('Sarantel')

                                 Board Changes

Sarantel is pleased to announce the appointment of Colin Tucker and Philip David
to the Board of Sarantel as Non Executive Directors.

Colin Tucker, aged 61, is the deputy chairman of Hutchison 3G, having been its
Managing director between 2000 and 2003. Mr Tucker is a director of Hutchison 3G
UK Limited, Hutchison 3G UK Holdings Limited, Morse PLC and Oxhill Aviation
Limited. He was director of TTP Communications PLC until July 2006. He is also
the Chief Operating Officer, International Operations, of Orange plc.

Mr David, aged 42, is the General Counsel of the ARM group. Mr David is a
director of ARM Limited.

There are no other disclosures which are required to be announced pursuant to
paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 to the AIM Rules.

Geoff Shingles, Non Executive Chairman of Sarantel commented:

'I am delighted to welcome Colin Tucker and Philip David to the Board of
Sarantel. Colin's experience will provide the company great insight into the
impact of our technology on emerging wireless standards. Philip's deep expertise
in the field of IP protection will be extremely valuable to the company as IP is
one of Sarantel's most important assets.'

For further information please contact:

Sarantel Group PLC                                     www.sarantel.com
Geoff Shingles Chairman/David Wither CEO               01933 670560
Smithfield                                             020 7360 4900
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Notes to Editors:

About Sarantel

Sarantel designs, manufactures and sells patented, ceramic, filtering antennas
for use in portable wireless devices. These antennas allow a clearer signal than
conventional antennas whilst reducing the amount of energy absorbed by the body
by approximately 90 per cent. They also simplify system design, thus allowing
design standardisation and reduced time to market and cost for manufacturers.
Sarantel's antennas significantly improve the performance of wireless systems by
increasing their range and effective bandwidth.

The Company supplies antennas to the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) market
and the North American satellite radio market and Sarantel's antennas have been
successfully designed into Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs), laptops and
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). Sarantel's antenna technology is also
capable of servicing multiple high volume markets such as Wi-Fi, 3G and
Bluetooth.

Sarantel is listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange and is
included in the IT Hardware sector (93) within the Telecommunications equipment
sub-sector (938) and has a RIC code of SLG.L






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