Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 1261X

BT Group PLC

19 June 2008

 



Thursday 19 June 2008

BT GROUP PLC

TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL

BT Group plc announces that it has today cancelled 250,000,000 ordinary shares. The cancelled shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above cancellation, BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,151,227,029 ordinary shares with voting rights, and BT Group plc holds 449,823,594 ordinary shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT Group plc is 7,701,403,435.

The above figure (7,701,403,435) may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, BT Group plc under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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