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    ANALYSIS OF SHAREHOLDINGS
            Ordinary shares  
            of 5p each  
           
 
            Number of      
    Number of   Percentage   shares held   Percentage  
Range
  holdings   of total   (millions)   of total  

 
1 – 399
  541,503   39.2   115   1.4  
400 – 799
  404,773   29.3   226   2.6  
800 – 1,599
  260,411   18.8   290   3.3  
1,600 – 9,999
  169,048   12.2   489   5.7  
10,000 – 99,999
  5,220   0.4   100   1.2  
100,000 – 999,999
  824   0.1   306   3.5  
1,000,000 – 4,999,999
  347   0.0   821   9.5  
5,000,000 and abovea,b,c,d
  216   0.0   6,288   72.8  

 
Totale
  1,382,342   100.0   8,635   100.0  

 
a
24 million shares were held in trust by Ilford Trustees (Jersey) Limited for allocation to employees under the employee share plans.
b
Under the BT Group Employee Share Investment Plan, 58.57 million shares were held in trust on behalf of 83,102 participants who were beneficially entitled to the shares. 132 million shares were held in the corporate nominee BT Group EasyShare on behalf of 116,643 beneficial owners.
c
268 million shares were represented by ADSs. Analysis by size of holding is not available for this holding.
d 290 million shares were held as treasury shares.
e
14.6% of the shares were in 1,359,282 individual holdings, of which 111,955 were joint holdings, and 85.4% of the shares were in 23,060 institutional holdings.
   
So far as the company is aware, the company is not directly or indirectly owned or controlled by another corporation or by the UK Government or any other foreign government or by any other natural or legal person severally or jointly. There are no arrangements known to the company the operation of which may at a subsequent date result in a change in control of the company.
     At 12 May 2006, there were 8,635,453,557 ordinary shares outstanding including 289,613,278 shares held as treasury shares. At the same date, approximately 27 million ADSs (equivalent to 270 million ordinary shares, or approximately 3.11% of the total number of ordinary shares outstanding on that date) were outstanding and were held by 2,792 record holders of ADRs.
     At 31 March 2006, there were 3,615 shareholders with a US address on the register of shareholders.
 

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