27 January 2026

Maintel Holdings plc
("Maintel" or the "Company")

Requisition of General Meeting

Maintel Holdings Plc, a leading provider of cloud communications, connectivity and security managed services, acknowledges the receipt of a requisition notice, from Christopher Mills, a director/authorised signatory for and on behalf of Oryx International Growth Limited, a shareholder holding greater than 5 per cent. of the issued share capital of Maintel. The requisition requires the Company to hold a general meeting to vote on resolutions to remove Stephen Beynon as a director and non-executive chairman of the Board and to appoint a new director, Martin Rowland, to the Board as chair.

The Board will convene the requisite meeting to consider the proposed resolutions in accordance with the statutory timelines and its articles of association.

Shareholders are advised to take no action at this time. The Company will provide further information in due course.

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The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information pursuant to Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 as amended. Upon the publication of this announcement via a Regulatory Information Service, this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

Notes to editors

Maintel Holdings Plc ("Maintel") is a leading provider of cloud communications, networking and security managed services to the UK public and private sectors. Its services aim to help its clients operate at the highest level by designing, implementing, innovating and managing their vital digital communication solutions, with a focus across three strategic pillars:

·    Unified Communications and Collaboration - Making customers' people more effective, efficient, and collaborative with UC&C technology. The core focus of this pillar is the high growth Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) market segment.

·     Customer Experience - Helping customers to acquire, delight and retain their customers using customer experience technology. The core focus of this pillar is the high growth Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) market segment.

·   Security & Connectivity - Securely connecting customers' people, partners and guests to their cloud platforms, applications, and data with secure connectivity, and protecting their business from cyber threat. The core focus of this pillar is the high growth Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN), Security Service Edge (SSE) and Cyber Managed Service market segments.

Maintel combines technology from its strategic, global technology vendor and carrier partners, with its own Intellectual Property, deployed from and managed by its own platforms, to provide seamless solutions that its customers can consume without the need for the internal skillset required to deploy and manage the technology themselves.

Maintel serves the whole market, with a particular focus on key verticals of Financial Services, Retail, Public Healthcare, Local Government, Higher Education, Social Housing and Utilities. Its core market constitutes organisations with between 250 and 10,000 employees in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors with headquarters in the UK.

The Company was founded in 1991 and it listed on London's AIM market in 2004 (AIM: MAI).