Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
20 April 2005


Wednesday 20 April 2005
                                  BT GROUP PLC

                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES


BT Group plc announces that today it transferred to participants in its employee
share schemes 3,901 ordinary shares at a maximum price of 154 pence per share
and a minimum price of 146 pence per share. The transferred shares were all
formerly held as treasury shares.


Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 134,278,365 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,500,350,673.


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