Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
13 July 2005


Wednesday 13 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 510,810 ordinary shares at a prices of between 154 pence
and 218 pence per share. The transferred shares were all formerly held as
treasury shares.

Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 138,659,097 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,635,096,783.

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