Purchase of Own Securities

BT Group PLC
20 November 2003


        Thursday 20 November 2003

        BT GROUP PLC

        PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

        BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through Merrill Lynch
        International 4,880,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 173.28
        pence per share




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