Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
21 August 2006


Monday 21 August 2006


                                  BT GROUP PLC

                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES


BT Group plc announces that on 26 June 2006 it transferred to participants in
its employees share schemes 9,009,894 ordinary shares at a price of 228.5 pence
per share. The transferred shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.
Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 303,539,539 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,335,089,924.


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