Technical Interest Adjustment

BT Group PLC 10 April 2002 BT - SPECIAL PURPOSE TRUST Adjustment to share interests of Directors BT Group plc BT Group plc advises that, on 10 April 2002, The Royal Bank of Scotland Trust Company (Jersey) Limited (the Trustee), as trustee of a discretionary employee trust established by British Telecommunications plc (BT)) (the Trust), transferred 12,247 ordinary shares in BT Group plc (BT Group Shares) and 12,247 ordinary shares in mmO2 plc (mmO2 Shares) to a total of 12 beneficiaries of the Trust in satisfaction of options held by them under the BT Employee Sharesave Scheme 1994. Following this transfer, the Trustee holds 45,274,661 BT Group Shares, as well as 45,274,661 mmO2 Shares. The Executive Directors of BT Group plc (Ben Verwaayen, Sir Christopher Bland, Philip Hampton, Andy Green, Pierre Danon, Paul Reynolds and Ian Livingston) are for the purposes of the Companies Act 1985 treated as interested in all of the BT Group Shares held in the Trust. Despite this technical interest in all of the BT Group Shares, each Executive Director will only be entitled to receive from the Trustee the number of BT Group Shares to which he is entitled on the exercise of options held by him under the BT Employee Sharesave Scheme 1994. Such options are only exercisable until 19 May 2002. Date of notification 10 April 2002 ends This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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