Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
09 February 2005


Wednesday 9 February 2005

                                  BT GROUP PLC
                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that today it transferred to participants in its
employees share schemes 2,954 ordinary shares at a price of 154 pence per share.
The transferred shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 105,253,073 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,529,375,965.

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