Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
20 February 2007


Tuesday 20 February 2007

                                  BT GROUP PLC

             TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL

BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through Merrill Lynch 
International 2,750,000 ordinary shares at a price of 312.82 pence per share. 
The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,640,654,852 ordinary shares with voting 
rights. Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 344,049,197 ordinary 
shares as treasury shares.  Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT 
Group plc is 8,296,605,655.

The above figure (8,296,605,655) 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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