Transaction in Own Shares

29th Mar 2005 17:13

Cable & Wireless PLC29 March 2005 Cable and Wireless plc announces that on 29 March 2005, it purchased 1,100,000ordinary shares from JPMorgan Cazenove Limited at a price of 127.3257p perordinary share and now holds a total of 60,500,000 ordinary shares in Treasury.The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as Treasuryshares) is 2,334,287,392. Enquiries: Cable and Wireless Investor Relations: Louise BreenDirector, Investor RelationsTel: +44 20 7315 4460 Craig ThorntonManager, Investor RelationsTel: +44 20 7315 6225 Virginia PorterVP, Investor Relations and Assoc. General CounselTel: 001 212 239 3581 Media : Lesley SmithGroup Director Corporate and Public AffairsTel: +44 (0) 1344 726945 Steve DoubleGroup Head of Media CommunicationsTel: +44 (0) 1344 726946Mob: +44 (0) 7917 067580 Cable & Wireless press officeTel: 01344 818888 End. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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