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26 May 2006 15:48

Chime Communications PLC26 May 2006 Chime Communications PLC ("Chime" or "the Company") Directors' Shareholdings On 25 May 2006, restricted awards over 1,247,000 existing ordinary shares weremade under the Chime Communications Deferred Share Plan, which, as detailed inthe Annual Report issued on 12 May 2006, has replaced the Executive Share Optiongrants as agreed by the Remuneration Committee of Chime. The shares werepurchased by the Chime Communications Employee Trust ("the Trust") on 16 May2006 at 43p and are to be held on behalf of the employees by the Trust for adeferral period of three years. Details of awards to Directors of the Company are as follows and were in linewith agreed performance criteria in their contractual remuneration packages: +-----------------------+--------------------+----------------------------+| | Restricted Shares | Resultant beneficial || | Acquired | interest following this || | | Transaction |+-----------------------+--------------------+--------------+-------------+| | No.| No.| %|+-----------------------+--------------------+--------------+-------------+|Lord Bell | 214,500| 1,702,366| 0.67|+-----------------------+--------------------+--------------+-------------+|Piers Pottinger | 139,800| 2,145,600| 0.85|+-----------------------+--------------------+--------------+-------------+|Christopher | 122,000| 158,514| 0.06||Satterthwaite | | | |+-----------------------+--------------------+--------------+-------------+|Mark Smith | 73,200| 320,370| 0.13|+-----------------------+--------------------+--------------+-------------+ The remaining 697,500 restricted shares were issued to 30 senior employees ofthe Group. Enquiries: Lord Bell, ChairmanMark Smith, Finance DirectorChime Communications PLC 0207861 8515 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange