Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 1367X

BT Group PLC

14 November 2014

 

14 November 2014

                                                                       BT GROUP PLC

                                  TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL

BT Group plc announces that on 14 November 2014 it purchased from Merrill Lynch International 150,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 370.1658 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 5,913,288 ordinary shares as treasury shares. Therefore the total number of voting rights in BT Group plc is 8,145,313,741.

The above figure (8,145,313,741) 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 FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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