Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
08 June 2005


Wednesday 8 June 2005
                                  BT GROUP PLC
                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that today it transferred to participants in its employee
share schemes 12,390 ordinary shares at a price of 199.50 pence per share. The
transferred shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 138,950,461 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,495,678,577.

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