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ANALYSIS OF SHAREHOLDINGS Ordinary shares
of 5p each
Range
Number of
holdings
Percentage
of total
Number of
shares held
(millions)
Percentage
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 above
a,b,c,d
216 0.0 6,288 72.8
Total
e
1,382,342 100.0 8,635 100.0
a24 million shares were held in trust by Ilford Trustees (Jersey) Limited for allocation to employees under the employee share plans.
bUnder 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.
c268 million shares were represented by ADSs. Analysis by size of holding is not available for this holding.
d290 million shares were held as treasury shares.
e14.6% 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.
DIVIDENDS
Since shortly after its incorporation in 1984, British Telecommunications plc paid interim dividends annually in February and final
dividends in September. However, as part of BT’s debt reduction and restructuring plans, neither a final dividend for the year
ended 31 March 2001 nor an interim dividend for the year ended 31 March 2002 was paid to shareholders.
A final dividend in respect of the year ended 31 March 2005 was paid on 5 September 2005 to shareholders on the register on
5 August 2005, and an interim dividend in respect of the year ended 31 March 2006 was paid on 13 February 2006 to
shareholders on the register on 31 December 2005.
The dividends paid or payable on BT shares and ADSs for the last five years are shown in the following table. The dividends on
the ordinary shares exclude the associated tax credit. The amounts shown are not those that were actually paid to holders of ADSs.
For the tax treatment of dividends paid see Taxation of dividends below. Dividends have been translated from pounds sterling into
US dollars using exchange rates prevailing on the date the ordinary dividends were paid.
Per ordinary share Per ADS Per ADS
Years ended 31 March
Interim
pence
Final
pence
Total
pence
Interim
£
Final
£
Total
£
Interim
US$
Final
US$
Total
US$
2002 – 2.00 2.00 – 0.200 0.200 – 0.311 0.311
2003 2.25 4.25 6.50 0.225 0.425 0.650 0.366 0.673 1.039
2004 3.20 5.30 8.50 0.320 0.530 0.850 0.590 0.938 1.528
2005 3.90 6.50 10.40 0.390 0.650 1.040 0.724 1.195 1.919
2006 4.30 7.60 11.90 0.430 0.760 1.190 0.747 –
a
–
a
aQualifying holders of ADSs on record as of 18 August 2006 are entitled to receive the final dividend which will be paid on 18 September 2006, subject to approval at the annual general meeting.
The US dollar amount of the final dividend of 76 pence per ADS to be paid to holders of ADSs will be based on the exchange rate in effect on 11 September 2006, the date of payment to holders of
ordinary shares.
As dividends paid by the company are in pounds sterling, exchange rate fluctuations will affect the US dollar amounts received by
holders of ADSs on conversion by the Depositary of such cash dividends.
DIVIDEND MANDATE
Any shareholder wishing dividends to be paid directly into a bank or building society account should contact the Shareholder
Helpline (see page 143). Dividends paid in this way will be paid through the Bankers Automated Clearing System (BACS).
Alternatively, a form may be downloaded from the Dividends page of our website at www.bt.com/sharesandperformance
Additional information for shareholders BT Group plc Annual Report and Form 20-F 2006 135