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Teamtalk.com Group PLC
9 May 2000


Teamtalk.com announces user statistics

Teamtalk.com Group plc (the "Group"), the UK's most popular online sports
service, today announces its user statistics for the last quarter prior to
demerger.  Financial information and non-financial operating data for the
first quarter after demerger will be announced in due course after 30 June
2000.  Key highlights include:

*Unique users grew 56 per cent on previous quarter
  
*Mobile text messages increased 58 per cent on previous quarter
  
*Unique users exceeded 870,000 in March
  
*Visits exceeded 5.3 million in March

The following table summarises selected key metrics for the Group across its
principal distribution channels over the period from January to March 2000:

                 January 2000  February 2000      March 2000
                                                            
Internet                                                    
Users                 532,926        653,600         771,929
Visits              3,660,057      4,155,562       4,660,250
Page               14,061,947     14,946,902      16,178,006
impressions
                                                            
Mobile                                                      
Users                  14,082         15,629          16,923
Visits                201,112        210,483         246,159
                                                            
Fixed line                                                  
Users                  60,574         72,513          83,578
Visits                418,322        376,772         417,172
                                                            
Combined                                                    
Users                 607,582        741,742         872,430
Visits              4,279,491      4,742,817       5,323,581

Growth reflects continued demand by Internet and mobile users for genuinely
up-to-date football news on a team-by-team basis.  Since demerger, the Company
has:

*Launched its rugby league and rugby union service.  It is the only web site
 offering full coverage of both codes of rugby, providing fans with original
 news on each club in the Tetley Super League and the Allied Dunbar Premier
 League; and
  
*Launched its sports information services for BT Cellnet.  The Company is the
 only provider of sports information to INFOtouch, BT Cellnet's instant
 mobile information service, and G-Infotext, its WAP text messaging service.
 Both services are supported by BT Cellnet's marketing campaign.

Bill Wilson, Chief Executive, commented today:

"This rapid growth in users in all areas reinforces our belief that quality
content on a team-by-team basis is what sports fans are looking for.  Our
strong content is also driving the B2B licensing of our content to other
Internet sites and mobile providers.  EURO 2000 will, also, provide us with
opportunities to develop our business further, both for our own services as
well as on behalf of our B2B customers."

Enquiries:

Teamtalk.com                            Tel: 0113 399 2000
Bill Wilson, Chairman & Chief Executive
Axel Steenberg, Finance Director

Brunswick Group                         Tel: 0171 404 5959
Stephen Breslin
Ben Brewerton

Notes to Editors:

Teamtalk.com consists of two divisions, the Sports Division and the B2B
Division.

Sports Division

The Sports Division, is a leading UK based provider of original sports content
for delivery to customers via the Internet, mobile and premium rate fixed line
telephone networks and satellite. The Sports Division has been originating and
delivering content since 1988. It launched its soccer Internet site,
www.teamtalk.com, in October 1997 and it now has one of the largest user bases
amongst UK web sites.

B2B Division
The B2B Division provides multi-lingual news and weather information and
Internet and e-mail services via satellite to maritime and hotel customers. It
is the clear market leader in the provision of subscription news services to
the cruise liner market and one of the leading global providers to the cargo
shipping market.

Definitions for user statistics:

1. Teamtalk.com defines the number of Internet users as the number of people
   who visit one of Teamtalk.com's web-sites during a month, the number of
   mobile users as the number of people who receive SMS messages during a
   month, and the number of fixed line users as the number of people who
   telephone one of Teamtalk.com's audiotext telephone services during a
   month.  If a person uses the same Teamtalk.com service (a "service" is any
   web-site, SMS or audiotext product) more than once in a month they are
   counted only once as a user.  If, however, that person uses more than one
   Teamtalk.com service during that month, they are counted as a user once
   for each service used.

2. Teamtalk.com defines the number of Internet visits in a month as the
   number of times that one of Teamtalk.com's web-sites is used (each team to
   be counted separately).  If an Internet user leaves one of the web-sites
   and returns more than 30 minutes later the return visit is counted as a
   separate Internet visit.  Each SMS message sent represents a separate
   message.  Each incoming call to Teamtalk.com's audiotext telephone
   services represents a separate fixed line call.

3. Teamtalk.com defines page impressions as the number of HTML (Hypertext
   Markup Language) page requests to a web service by a web browser to
   provide a HTML page (ie exclusive of graphic images).

4. Teamtalk.com defines the number of combined users as the total number of
   people using its Internet, mobile and fixed line serviced during a month
   and the combined visits as the total number of Internet visits, mobile
   messages and fixed line calls during a month.

5. Teamtalk.com's non-financial operating data presented in the table above
   should be read in the light of the following factors, which influence the
   compilation of such data:

     Teamtalk.com currently uses cookies to identify web site users.
     Teamtalk.com began using cookies in February 2000;
     
     Some Internet users will have security or Internet efficiency measures
     which will mean that Teamtalk.com will only be able to identify one
     Internet user when in fact several Internet users have accessed
     Teamtalk.com's web-sites from the same location;
     
     Some ISPs allocate identification addresses to their Internet users in
     such a way that either several Internet users accessing Teamtalk.com's
     web-sites via that service provide will be identified as a single
     Internet user, or a single Internet user who logs in via that service
     provider several times in the same day will be counted as a different
     Internet user each time;
     
     Teamtalk.com relies on a third party for identification of mobile users
     and individual messages accessed by mobile users of its SMS services;
     
     Teamtalk.com relies on a third party for identification of fixed line
     users and calls for its audiotext services;
     
     Fixed line users of Teamtalk.com's telephone services who call from the
     same switchboard number cannot be identified as separate fixed line
     users;
     
     The third party uses call line identification technology to track
     incoming calls and consequently if a fixed line user calls from more that
     one telephone they will be recorded more than once as a fixed line user;
     and
     
     If a fixed line user elects to withhold his number, the third party will
     not be able to identify whether that caller is a user of its service and
     so any such calls are excluded from the data above.


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