Total Voting Rights

Fairpoint Group PLC
31 March 2008





31 March 2008


                 Fairpoint Group plc ('Fairpoint' or 'the Company')


Total Voting rights


In conformity with the Disclosure and Transparency Rules the Company would like
to notify the market of the following:

The Company's capital consists of 42,449,040 ordinary shares with voting rights.
No ordinary shares are held in treasury.

Therefore the total number of ordinary shares in the Company with voting rights
is 42,449,040.

The above figure of 42,449,040 ordinary shares 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, the
Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.



Enquiries:

Fairpoint Group plc
Andrew Redmond, Chief Executive Officer                   0845 296 0100
Andy Heath, Finance Director                              0845 296 0200

Financial Dynamics
Ed Gascoigne-Pees                                         020 7269 7132
Nick Henderson                                            020 7269 7114

Numis Securities
Chris Wilkinson                                           020 7260 1000
Lee Aston                                                 020 7260 1000



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