Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
09 March 2005


Wednesday, 9 March 2005
                                  BT GROUP PLC
                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through Merrill Lynch
International 300,000 ordinary shares at a price of 205 pence per share. The
purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 119,516,449 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,515,112,589.

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