Exercise of Options

14 March 2014

Tangent Communications plc ("Tangent" or the "Company")

Exercise of Options

Tangent announces that on 13 March 2014 an employee of the Company exercised 460,000 options under the Tangent unapproved share option scheme. The options have an exercise price of 1 pence per share.

The 460,000 new ordinary shares issued will rank pari passu with the Company's existing ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares"). Application has been made for the 460,000 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and trading in such shares is expected to commence on 19 March 2014 ("Admission").

Following Admission, the total number of Ordinary Shares in the Company with voting rights will be 280,844,648.

For further information, please contact:

Tangent Communications plcKevin Cameron - Finance Director: 020 7462 6101Seema Paterson - Corporate Development: 020 7462 6101

Canaccord Genuity Limited - Nominated adviser and broker

Bruce Garrow / Emma Gabriel: 020 7523 8350