COLT Telecom Group -- Director Declaration


London, June 13, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- COLT Telecom Group plc (COLT) (Nasdaq:COLT) (LSE:CTM):

Disclosure of Directors Details

This announcement is made further to the announcement made on 2 June 2003 announcing Mr. Hans Eggerstedt's appointment as a non-executive director of COLT Telecom Group plc.

In accordance with Chapter 16 of the Listing Rules Mr. Hans Eggerstedt is a former Finance Director of Unilever, having retired from that position in 1999. He is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of Unilever Deutschland and also a member of the Advisory Council of the ING Group, a member of the Supervisory Board of Rodamco Europe and has non-executive directorships with Jeronimo Martins and bolero.net. He has held no other directorships in any other publicly quoted Company at any time in the previous five years and there is no information to be disclosed in relation to paragraph 6. F. 2(b)to(g).

ABOUT COLT

COLT Telecom Group plc is a leading pan-European provider of business communications services. COLT has over 16,000 network services and eBusiness customers. The company owns an integrated 20,000 kilometre network that directly connects over 9,000 buildings in 32 major cities in 13 countries augmented with a further 27 points of presence across Europe and 11 Internet Solution Centres. COLT supplies customers across the full spectrum of industry, service and government sectors with unrivalled end-to-end network security, reliability and service.

COLT Telecom Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (CTM.L) and NASDAQ (COLT). Information about COLT and its products and services can be found on the web at www.colt.net.


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