Purchase of Own Securities

BT Group PLC
16 February 2004


Monday, 16 February 2004
                                  BT GROUP PLC
                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through Merrill Lynch
International 2,500,000 ordinary shares at a price of 173.255 pence per share.
The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.
Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 2,500,000 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,632,129,038


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