Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
03 October 2005


Monday 3 October 2005
                                  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 223.6406 pence per share. The
purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 182,443,664 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,452,799,363.

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