Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
20 March 2008



Thursday 20 March


                                  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 24,130 ordinary shares at a price of 209.75 pence. The
transferred shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.


BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,401,227,029 ordinary shares with voting
rights. Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 579,811,139 ordinary
shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT
Group plc is 7,821,415,890).


The above figure (7,821,415,890 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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