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|
|
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|
Ordinary shares
of 5p each |
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|
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Range
|
|
|
Number of
holdings |
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Percentage
of total |
|
|
Number of
shares held
(millions) |
|
|
Percentage
of total |
|
|
|
|
1 – 399
|
|
|
479,019 |
|
|
38.1 |
|
|
102 |
|
|
1.2 |
|
|
400 – 799
|
|
|
365,686 |
|
|
29.0 |
|
|
205 |
|
|
2.4 |
|
|
800 – 1,599
|
|
|
246,786 |
|
|
19.5 |
|
|
275 |
|
|
3.2 |
|
|
1,600 – 9,999
|
|
|
162,845 |
|
|
12.9 |
|
|
472 |
|
|
5.5 |
|
|
10,000 – 99,999
|
|
|
5,103 |
|
|
0.4 |
|
|
98 |
|
|
1.1 |
|
|
100,000 – 999,999
|
|
|
775 |
|
|
0.1 |
|
|
282 |
|
|
3.2 |
|
|
1,000,000 – 4,999,999
|
|
|
358 |
|
|
0.0 |
|
|
812 |
|
|
9.4 |
|
|
5,000,000 and abovea,b,c,d
|
|
|
212 |
|
|
0.0 |
|
|
6,394 |
|
|
74.0 |
|
|
|
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Totale
|
|
|
1,260,784 |
|
|
100.0 |
|
|
8,640 |
|
|
100.0 |
|
|
|
a |
21 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, 70.32 million shares were held in
trust on behalf of 82,811 participants who were beneficially entitled
to the shares. 149 million shares were held in the corporate nominee
BT Group EasyShare on behalf of 108,758 beneficial owners. |
c |
306 million shares were
represented by ADSs. Analysis by size of holding is not available for
this holding. |
d |
371 million shares were
held as treasury shares. |
e |
12.4% of the shares were
in 1,238,337 individual holdings, of which 97,571 were joint holdings,
and 87.6% of the shares were in 28,447 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 11 May 2007, there were
8,640,654,852 ordinary shares outstanding including 368,173,044 shares
held as treasury shares. At the same date, approximately 31 million ADSs
(equivalent to 310 million ordinary shares, or approximately 3.6% of the
total number of ordinary shares outstanding on that date) were outstanding
and were held by 2,482 record holders of ADRs.
At 31 March 2007, there
were 3,591 shareholders with a US address on the register of shareholders.
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