Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
19 January 2005


Wednesday 19 January 2005
                                  BT GROUP PLC
                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that today it transferred to participants in its
employees share schemes 42,694 ordinary shares at a price of 199.5 pence per
share. The transferred shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 105,327,499 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,529,301,539.

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