Update re: Bridging Finance

The People's Operator plc

('TPO', the 'Company' or the 'Group')

Update re: Bridging Finance

The People's Operator (AIM: TPOP), the cause-based commercial mobile virtual network operator, announces that it is in discussions with a third party regarding a potential investment in the Company.

The Company has received an initial advance from the third party and, while these discussions are continuing, it is the third party's intention to continue to provide bridging finance to the Company. It is anticipated that this bridging finance would ultimately be converted to equity as part of any potential investment by the third party.

Trading in the Company's ordinary shares on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange remains suspended pending publication of the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2017, following which the Company will request the suspension to be lifted.

Further announcements will be made in due course.

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The information communicated in this announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014.