Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4321B

BT Group PLC

27 October 2009

 



Tuesday 27 October 2009

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 900 ordinary shares at a price of 111 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 399,204,206 ordinary shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT Group plc is 7,752,022,823.

The above figure (7,752,022,823) 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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