Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
09 November 2007



Friday 9 November 2007


                                  BT GROUP PLC


             TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL


BT Group plc announces that it has today transferred in connection with its
employee share plans 91,022 ordinary shares at a market price of 296.1193 pence
per share. The transferred shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.


BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,640,654,852 ordinary shares with voting
rights. Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 568,939,805 ordinary
shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT
Group plc is 8,072,705,047.


The above figure (8,072,715,047) 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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