Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
18 April 2007


Wednesday 18 April 2007

                                  BT GROUP PLC

             TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL


BT Group plc announces that it has today transferred to participants in its
employee share plans 270,619 ordinary shares at a minimum price of 154 pence per
share and a maximum price of 263 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 369,334,572 ordinary
shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT
Group plc is 8,271,320,280.

The above figure (8,271,320,280) 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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