Total Voting Rights

Cable and Wireless plc

Total Voting Rights: Month-end Disclosure

Cable and Wireless plc (the "Company") confirms that on 31 January 2010, its issued share capital consisted of 2,623,017,685 Ordinary Shares of 25p nominal value with voting rights ("Ordinary Shares").

The Company holds 28,865,359 Ordinary Shares in treasury.

Therefore, as at 31 January 2010 the total number of voting rights in the Company is 2,594,152,326. Shareholders may use this figure 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 ("DTR").

Changes to the Company's issued share capital since 31 December 2009 relate to the issue of new shares on the exercise of employee share options and the issue of scrip dividend shares.

This announcement is in conformity with DTR 5.6.1.

1 February 2010