Total Voting Rights

Cable & Wireless Communications Plc

1 April 2015

TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

Further to the announcement dated 31 March 2015 by Cable & Wireless Communications Plc ("CWC") relating to the completion of the acquisition by CWC of the entire issued share capital of Columbus International Inc., CWC wishes to notify the market of the following:

As at 1 April 2015, CWC's issued share capital consists of 4,475,953,616 ordinary shares, each with a nominal value of USD 0.05 and voting rights ("Ordinary Shares"). CWC also holds 137,488,873 Ordinary Shares in treasury, in each case without voting rights.

Therefore the total number of Ordinary Shares in CWC with voting rights is 4,338,464,743.

The above figure (4,338,464,743) may be used by shareholders in CWC 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 share capital of CWC under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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About Cable & Wireless Communications

Cable & Wireless Communications Plc (CWC) is a full-service communications provider operating in 16 countries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. With four leading brands: Mas Movil (Cable and Wireless Panama), LIME (the Caribbean excluding The Bahamas), BTC (The Bahamas) and Cable and Wireless Seychelles, CWC offers mobile, broadband, TV, domestic and international fixed line services and serves over 5.5m customers. CWC also provides premium data centre hosting, domestic and international managed data network services and customised IT Service Solutions to businesses and governments through our Cable & Wireless Business Solutions division.

We are the market leader in most of the products we offer and the territories we serve.

For more information visit: www.cwc.com.

About Columbus International Inc.

Columbus International Inc. is a privately held diversified telecommunications company based in Barbados. The Company provides digital cable television, broadband Internet and digital landline telephony in Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Lucia and Curacao under the brand name Flow and in Antigua under the brand name Karib Cable. Columbus also provides next generation connectivity and IT solutions, managed networking and cloud-based services under the brand Columbus Business Solutions. Through its subsidiary, Columbus Networks, the Company provides capacity and IP services, corporate data solutions and data centre hosting throughout 42 countries in the greater Caribbean, Central American and Andean region. Through its fully protected, ringed submarine fibre optic network spanning more than 42,300 km and its 38,000 km terrestrial fibre and coaxial network, Columbus' 3,150 plus professionals provide advanced telecom services to a diverse residential and corporate client base of over 700,000 customers.

For more information visit www.columbus.co

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