Technical Interest Adjustment

BT Group PLC
30 January 2002


                           BT - SPECIAL PURPOSE TRUST


Adjustment to share interest of Directors

BT Group plc

BT Group plc advises that, on 30 January 2002, The Royal Bank of Scotland Trust
Company (Jersey) Limited (the Trustee), as trustee of a discretionary employee
trust established by British Telecommunications plc (BT)) (the Trust),
transferred 731,922 ordinary shares in BT Group plc (BT Group Shares) and
731,922 ordinary shares in mmO2 plc (mmO2 Shares) to a total of 720
beneficiaries of the Trust in satisfaction of options held by them under the BT
Employee Sharesave Scheme 1994.

Following this transfer, the Trustee holds 47,313,873 BT Group Shares, as well
as 47,313,873 mmO2 Shares. The Executive Directors of BT Group plc (Ben
Verwaayen, Sir Christopher Bland, Sir Peter Bonfield, Philip Hampton, Andy
Green, Pierre Danon and Paul Reynolds) are for the purposes of the Companies Act
1985 treated as interested in all of the BT Group Shares held in the Trust.
Despite this technical interest in all of the BT Group Shares, each Executive
Director will only be entitled to receive from the Trustee the number of BT
Group Shares to which he is entitled on the exercise of options held by him
under the BT Employee Sharesave Scheme 1994. Such options are only exercisable
until 19 May 2002.


Date of notification 30 January 2002

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