Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
24 November 2006


Friday 24 November 2006

                                  BT GROUP PLC

                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through JPMorgan Cazenove
Limited 1,000,000 ordinary shares at a  price of 279.6938p pence per share. The
purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 335,566,928 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,304,755,720.



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