Transaction in Own Shares
Tuesday 8 March 2011
BT GROUP PLC
TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL
BT Group plc announces that it has today transferred in connection with its employee share plans 192 ordinary shares at a price of 104 pence per share. The transferred shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.
BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,151,227,029 ordinary shares with voting rights. Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 388,579,520 ordinary shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT Group plc is 7,762,647,509
The above figure (7,762,647,509) 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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