Transaction in Own Shares-Rep

BT Group PLC
06 March 2008


The following amendment has been made to the 'Purchase of Own Shares' 
announcement released today at 13:07pm under RNS No 5315P.

The total number of voting rights in BT Group plc should read 7,855,804,898 and 
not 77,866,916,748 as previously stated.

All other details remain unchanged.

The full amended text is shown below.




Thursday 6 March 2008
                                  BT GROUP PLC

             TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL

BT Group plc announces that it has today transferred in connection with its
employee share plans 8,098 ordinary shares at a price of 218.5 pence. The
transferred shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,640,654,852 ordinary shares with voting
rights. Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 784,849,954 ordinary
shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT
Group plc is 7,855,804,898.

The above figure (7,855,804,898) may be used by shareholders as the denominator
for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify
their interest in, or a change to their interest in, BT Group plc under the
FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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