Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
17 January 2008




Thursday 17 January 2008


                                  BT GROUP PLC


             TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL


BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through Morgan Stanley
Securities Limited 600,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 276.93 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 658,635,209 ordinary
shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT
Group plc is 7,982,019,643.

The above figure (7,982,019,643) 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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