Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
20 March 2007


Tuesday 20 March 2007

                                  BT GROUP PLC

             TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL


BT Group plc announces that it has today transferred to a participant in its
employee share plans 77,826 ordinary shares at a market price of 302 pence per
share. The transferred shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,640,654,852 ordinary shares with voting
rights. Following the above transfer, BT  Group plc holds 360,017,798 ordinary
shares as treasury shares.  Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT 
Group plc is 8,280,637,054.

The above figure (8,280,637,054) 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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