Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
22 December 2004


Wednesday 22 December 2004

                                  BT GROUP PLC
                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that today it transferred to participants in its
employees share schemes 14,441 ordinary shares at a maximum price of 199.50
pence per share and a minimum price of 173.02 pence per share. The transferred
shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 102,117,144 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,532,511,894.

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