Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
02 March 2007


Friday 2 March 2007

                                  BT GROUP PLC

             TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL

BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through Merrill Lynch
International 500,000 ordinary shares at a  price of 293.58 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 353,057,694 ordinary
shares as treasury shares.  Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT 
Group plc is 8,287,597,158.

The above figure (8,287,597,158) 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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