Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
04 December 2003


Thursday, 4 December 2003

                                  BT GROUP PLC

                             PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

  BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased for cancellation through
   Merrill Lynch International 575,000 ordinary shares at an average price of
                            175.29 pence per share.


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