Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 6238F

BT Group PLC

18 June 2012

 

BT GROUP PLC

18 June 2012

BT GROUP PLC - TRANSACTIONS IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL

BT Group plc announces that on 18 June 2012 it purchased from J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd. 2,000,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 200.8881 pence per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,151,227,029 ordinary shares with voting rights.   Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 353,632,342 ordinary shares as treasury shares.  Therefore the total number of voting rights in BT Group plc is 7,797,594,687

The above figure 7,797,594,687 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they 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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