Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC 31 July 2007 Tuesday 31 July 2007 BT GROUP PLC TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through Merrill Lynch International 4,000,000 ordinary shares at a price of 314.75 pence per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares. BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,640,654,852 ordinary shares with voting rights. Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 504,797,235 ordinary shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT Group plc is 8,135,857,617. The above figure (8,135,857,617) 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. = ends = This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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