Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
11 May 2005


Wednesday 11 May 2005

                                  BT GROUP PLC
                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that on 4 May it transferred 925 ordinary shares, and
that today it transferred 333 ordinary shares, to participants in its employee
share schemes - a total of 1,258 ordinary shares - at a maximum price of 165 
pence per share and a minimum price of 146 pence per share. The transferred 
shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfers, BT Group plc holds 134,277,107 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,500,351,931.

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