Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9272G

BT Group PLC

04 July 2012

 



Wednesday 04 July 2012

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 874,400 ordinary shares at nil cost. 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 360,366,957 ordinary shares as treasury shares.  Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT Group plc is 7,790,860,072

The above figure (7,790,860,072) 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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