10th Mar 2005 17:18
Cable & Wireless PLC10 March 2005 Cable & Wireless PLC10 March 2005 Cable and Wireless plc announces that on 10 March 2005, it purchased 1,000,000ordinary shares from Hoare Govett's affiliate, ABN AMRO Bank N.V., LondonBranch, at a price of 131.82p per ordinary share and now holds a total of 43,850,000 ordinary shares in Treasury. The total number of ordinary shares inissue (excluding shares held as Treasury shares) is 2,350,208,449. Enquiries: Cable and Wireless Investor Relations : Louise Breen - Director, Investor Relations Tel: +44 20 7315 4460Craig Thornton - Manager, Investor Relations Tel: +44 20 7315 6225Virginia Porter - VP, Investor Relations and Assoc. General Counsel Tel: 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 067580Cable & Wireless press officeTel: 01344 818888 Note to editorsCable & Wireless is one of the world's leading international communicationscompanies. It provides voice, data and IP (Internet Protocol) services tobusiness and residential customers, as well as services to other telecomscarriers, mobile operators and providers of content, applications and internetservices. Cable & Wireless' principal operations are in the United Kingdom, continentalEurope, Asia, the Caribbean, Panama and the Middle East. For more informationabout Cable & Wireless, go to www.cw.com . This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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