Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
29 November 2007



Thursday 29 November 2007


                                  BT GROUP PLC


             TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL


BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through JPMorgan Cazenove
Limited 1,000,000 ordinary shares at a price of 283.3238 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 617,160,576 ordinary
shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT
Group plc is 8,023,494,276.


The above figure (8,023,494,276) 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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