Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
19 November 2004


Friday 19 November 2004
                                  BT GROUP PLC

                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that on Wednesday 17 November it transferred to
participants in its employees share schemes 4,310 ordinary shares at a maximum
price of 173 pence per share and a minimum price of 154 pence per share. The
transferred shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.
Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 90,160,630 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,544,468,408.

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