Last checked at 20 Jun 2017 09:20
20 June 2017
BT GROUP PLC
TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL
BT Group plc announces that on 20 June 2017 it purchased from Atlas Services Belgium, a subsidiary of Orange, 43,402,777 ordinary shares at a price of 288 pence per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares. Separately, Ilford Trustees (Jersey) Limited, trustee of the BT Group Employee Share Ownership Trust also purchased 26,041,666 ordinary shares at a price of 288 pence per share from Atlas Services Belgium, a subsidiary of Orange, on 20 June 2017.
BT Group plc's capital consists of 9,968,127,681 ordinary shares with voting rights. Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 50,933,610 ordinary shares as treasury shares. Therefore the total number of voting rights in BT Group plc is 9,917,194,071.
The above figure (9,917,194,071) may be used by shareholders 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, BT Group plc under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.