Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
06 July 2005


Wednesday 6 July 2005
                                  BT GROUP PLC
                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that it has today transferred to participants in its
employees share schemes 4,442 ordinary shares at a price of 218 pence per share.
The transferred shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 139,169,907 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,495,702,369.

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