Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
30 December 2005


Friday 30 December 2005
                                  BT GROUP PLC
                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through Merrill Lynch
International 500,000 ordinary shares at a price of 222.0354 pence per share.
The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.
Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 238,257,121 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,397,070,147

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