Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
30 September 2005


Friday 30 September 2005
                                  BT GROUP PLC
                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through JPMorgan Cazenove
Limited 750,000 ordinary shares at a price of 222.04 pence per share. The
purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 181,443,664 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,453,799,363.

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