28th Mar 2008 16:54
BT Group PLC28 March 2008 Friday 28 March 2008 BT GROUP PLC TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through Merrill LynchInternational 4,000,000 ordinary shares at a price of 215.83 pence per share.The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares. BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,401,227,029 ordinary shares with votingrights. Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 602,218,531 ordinaryshares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BTGroup plc is 7,799,008,498. The above figure (7,799,008,498) may be used by shareholders as the denominatorfor the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notifytheir interest in, or a change to their interest in, BT Group plc under theFSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules. = ends = This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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