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Colt Telecom Group PLC
02 June 2003



2 June 2003


              COLT APPOINTS HANS EGGERSTEDT TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS


COLT Telecom Group plc (COLT), a leading European provider of business
communication services, announced today the appointment of Hans Eggerstedt as a
non-executive director.

Mr Eggerstedt is a former Finance Director of Unilever, having retired from that
position in 1999. Prior to being appointed Finance Director he held a range of
management positions with Unilever and is currently a member of the Supervisory
Board of Unilever Deutschland. Mr Eggerstedt is 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.

COLT Chairman, Barry Bateman said:

"I welcome Hans to COLT. I am sure that we will value his expertise and counsel
and that COLT will be well served by his experience in international business
and knowledge of the German market in particular."


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.


CONTACT

John Doherty
Director Investor Relations
Tel: +44 20 7390 3681
Email: jdoherty@colt-telecom.com



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